CVE-2019-11763

Description

Failure to correctly handle null bytes when processing HTML entities resulted in Firefox incorrectly parsing these entities. This could have led to HTML comment text being treated as HTML which could have led to XSS in a web application under certain conditions. It could have also led to HTML entities being masked from filters - enabling the use of entities to mask the actual characters of interest from filters. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 70, Thunderbird < 68.2, and Firefox ESR < 68.2.

CVSS Version 3.1
CVSS Version 2.0

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CVE ID: CVE-2019-11763
Base Score: 6.1
Base Severity: MEDIUM
Vector String:CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Impact Score: 2.7
Exploitability Score: 2.8

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CVE ID: CVE-2019-11763
Base Score: 4.3
Base Severity: MEDIUM
Vector String:AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Refrence: NVD

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