Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting mozilla package, versions [,68.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.25% (65th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2379406
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Jul 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Jul 2019

CVE-2019-11718  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-74  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 68.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Injection. Activity Stream can display content from sent from the Snippet Service website. This content is written to innerHTML on the Activity Stream page without sanitization, allowing for a potential access to other information available to the Activity Stream, such as browsing history, if the Snipper Service were compromised. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 68.

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