#VU22168 Protection mechanism failure in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2019-11763 

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#VU22168 Protection mechanism failure in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2019-11763

Published: October 23, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU22168
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-11763
CWE-ID: CWE-693
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Mozilla Firefox
Software vendor:
Mozilla

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform XSS attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to the way Firefox processes HTML entities. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted web page and make the browser treat HTML comment text  as HTML, which could have led to XSS in a web application.


Remediation

Install updates from vendor's website.

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