Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting firefox package, versions <70.0-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (34th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-FIREFOX-474069
  • published22 Oct 2019
  • disclosed8 Jan 2020

Introduced: 22 Oct 2019

CVE-2019-17001  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable firefox to version 70.0-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream firefox package and not the firefox package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

A Content-Security-Policy that blocks in-line scripts could be bypassed using an object tag to execute JavaScript in the protected document (cross-site scripting). This is a separate bypass from CVE-2019-17000.Note: This flaw only affected Firefox 69 and was not present in earlier versions.. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 70.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1