Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting mozilla package, versions [,60.8.0)(60.8.0,68.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.45% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2377974
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Jul 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Jul 2019

CVE-2019-11717  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-116  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 60.8.0, 68.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS). A vulnerability exists where the caret ("^") character is improperly escaped constructing some URIs due to it being used as a separator, allowing for possible spoofing of origin attributes. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 60.8, Firefox < 68, and Thunderbird < 60.8.

CVSS Scores

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