Vulnerabilities > CVE-2019-11747 - Improper Initialization vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox

047910
CVSS 6.5 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
NONE
network
low complexity
mozilla
CWE-665
nessus

Summary

The "Forget about this site" feature in the History pane is intended to remove all saved user data that indicates a user has visited a site. This includes removing any HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) settings received from sites that use it. Due to a bug, sites on the pre-load list also have their HSTS setting removed. On the next visit to that site if the user specifies an http: URL rather than secure https: they will not be protected by the pre-loaded HSTS setting. After that visit the site's HSTS setting will be restored. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 69 and Firefox ESR < 68.1.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Mozilla
765

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Leveraging Race Conditions
    This attack targets a race condition occurring when multiple processes access and manipulate the same resource concurrently and the outcome of the execution depends on the particular order in which the access takes place. The attacker can leverage a race condition by "running the race", modifying the resource and modifying the normal execution flow. For instance a race condition can occur while accessing a file, the attacker can trick the system by replacing the original file with his version and cause the system to read the malicious file.
  • Leveraging Time-of-Check and Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) Race Conditions
    This attack targets a race condition occurring between the time of check (state) for a resource and the time of use of a resource. The typical example is the file access. The attacker can leverage a file access race condition by "running the race", meaning that he would modify the resource between the first time the target program accesses the file and the time the target program uses the file. During that period of time, the attacker could do something such as replace the file and cause an escalation of privilege.

Nessus

  • NASL familyRed Hat Local Security Checks
    NASL idREDHAT-RHSA-2019-2663.NASL
    descriptionAn update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section. [Updated 24 September 2019] Previously, this erratum was marked as having a security impact of Critical. This was incorrect; the security impact of this erratum has been changed to Important, to correctly reflect the highest impact rating of CVE fixes included in this release. No changes have been made to the packages. Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and portability. This update upgrades Firefox to version 68.1.0 ESR. Security Fix(es) : * Mozilla: Sandbox escape through Firefox Sync (CVE-2019-9812) * Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 69 and Firefox ESR 68.1 (CVE-2019-11735) * Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 69, Firefox ESR 68.1, and Firefox ESR 60.9 (CVE-2019-11740) * Mozilla: Same-origin policy violation with SVG filters and canvas to steal cross-origin images (CVE-2019-11742) * Mozilla: XSS by breaking out of title and textarea elements using innerHTML (CVE-2019-11744) * Mozilla: Use-after-free while manipulating video (CVE-2019-11746) * Mozilla: Use-after-free while extracting a key value in IndexedDB (CVE-2019-11752) * Mozilla: Cross-origin access to unload event attributes (CVE-2019-11743) * Mozilla: Persistence of WebRTC permissions in a third party context (CVE-2019-11748) * Mozilla: Camera information available without prompting using getUserMedia (CVE-2019-11749) * Mozilla: Type confusion in Spidermonkey (CVE-2019-11750) * Mozilla: Content security policy bypass through hash-based sources in directives (CVE-2019-11738) * Mozilla:
    last seen2020-05-31
    modified2019-09-05
    plugin id128517
    published2019-09-05
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/128517
    titleRHEL 8 : firefox (RHSA-2019:2663)
  • NASL familyFreeBSD Local Security Checks
    NASL idFREEBSD_PKG_05463E0AABD34FA4BD5FCD5ED132D4C6.NASL
    descriptionMozilla Foundation reports : CVE-2019-11751: Malicious code execution through command line parameters CVE-2019-11746: Use-after-free while manipulating video CVE-2019-11744: XSS by breaking out of title and textarea elements using innerHTML CVE-2019-11742: Same-origin policy violation with SVG filters and canvas to steal cross-origin images CVE-2019-11736: File manipulation and privilege escalation in Mozilla Maintenance Service CVE-2019-11753: Privilege escalation with Mozilla Maintenance Service in custom Firefox installation location CVE-2019-11752: Use-after-free while extracting a key value in IndexedDB CVE-2019-9812: Sandbox escape through Firefox Sync CVE-2019-11741: Isolate addons.mozilla.org and accounts.firefox.com CVE-2019-11743: Cross-origin access to unload event attributes CVE-2019-11748: Persistence of WebRTC permissions in a third party context CVE-2019-11749: Camera information available without prompting using getUserMedia CVE-2019-5849: Out-of-bounds read in Skia CVE-2019-11750: Type confusion in Spidermonkey CVE-2019-11737: Content security policy directives ignore port and path if host is a wildcard CVE-2019-11738: Content security policy bypass through hash-based sources in directives CVE-2019-11747:
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id128491
    published2019-09-04
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/128491
    titleFreeBSD : mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (05463e0a-abd3-4fa4-bd5f-cd5ed132d4c6)
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idOPENSUSE-2019-2251.NASL
    descriptionThis update for MozillaFirefox to 68.1 fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : - CVE-2019-9811: Fixed a sandbox escape via installation of malicious language pack. (bsc#1140868) - CVE-2019-9812: Fixed a sandbox escape through Firefox Sync. (bsc#1149294) - CVE-2019-11710: Fixed several memory safety bugs. (bsc#1140868) - CVE-2019-11714: Fixed a potentially exploitable crash in Necko. (bsc#1140868) - CVE-2019-11716: Fixed a sandbox bypass. (bsc#1140868) - CVE-2019-11718: Fixed inadequate sanitation in the Activity Stream component. (bsc#1140868) - CVE-2019-11720: Fixed a character encoding XSS vulnerability. (bsc#1140868) - CVE-2019-11721: Fixed a homograph domain spoofing issue through unicode latin
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id129664
    published2019-10-07
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/129664
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox (openSUSE-2019-2251)
  • NASL familyWindows
    NASL idMOZILLA_FIREFOX_69_0.NASL
    descriptionThe version of Firefox installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 69.0. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2019-25 advisory. Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id128525
    published2019-09-05
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/128525
    titleMozilla Firefox < 69.0
  • NASL familyMacOS X Local Security Checks
    NASL idMACOS_FIREFOX_69_0.NASL
    descriptionThe version of Firefox installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 69.0. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2019-25 advisory. Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id128524
    published2019-09-05
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/128524
    titleMozilla Firefox < 69.0
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_SU-2019-2545-1.NASL
    descriptionThis update for MozillaFirefox to 68.1 fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : CVE-2019-9811: Fixed a sandbox escape via installation of malicious language pack. (bsc#1140868) CVE-2019-9812: Fixed a sandbox escape through Firefox Sync. (bsc#1149294) CVE-2019-11710: Fixed several memory safety bugs. (bsc#1140868) CVE-2019-11714: Fixed a potentially exploitable crash in Necko. (bsc#1140868) CVE-2019-11716: Fixed a sandbox bypass. (bsc#1140868) CVE-2019-11718: Fixed inadequate sanitation in the Activity Stream component. (bsc#1140868) CVE-2019-11720: Fixed a character encoding XSS vulnerability. (bsc#1140868) CVE-2019-11721: Fixed a homograph domain spoofing issue through unicode latin
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id129583
    published2019-10-04
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/129583
    titleSUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : MozillaFirefox (SUSE-SU-2019:2545-1)
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_SU-2019-2620-1.NASL
    descriptionThis update for MozillaFirefox fixes the following issues : Updated to new ESR version 68.1 (bsc#1149323). In addition to the already fixed vulnerabilities released in previous ESR updates, the following were also fixed: CVE-2019-11751, CVE-2019-11736, CVE-2019-9812, CVE-2019-11748, CVE-2019-11749, CVE-2019-11750, CVE-2019-11738, CVE-2019-11747, CVE-2019-11735. Several run-time issues were also resolved (bsc#1117473, bsc#1124525, bsc#1133810). The version displayed in Help > About is now correct (bsc#1087200). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id129772
    published2019-10-10
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/129772
    titleSUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : MozillaFirefox (SUSE-SU-2019:2620-1)
  • NASL familyWindows
    NASL idMOZILLA_FIREFOX_68_1_ESR.NASL
    descriptionThe version of Firefox ESR installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 68.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2019-26 advisory. Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id128528
    published2019-09-05
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/128528
    titleMozilla Firefox ESR < 68.1
  • NASL familyUbuntu Local Security Checks
    NASL idUBUNTU_USN-4122-1.NASL
    descriptionMultiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to obtain sensitive information, bypass Content Security Policy (CSP) protections, bypass same-origin restrictions, conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, cause a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-5849, CVE-2019-11734, CVE-2019-11735, CVE-2019-11737, CVE-2019-11738, CVE-2019-11740, CVE-2019-11742, CVE-2019-11743, CVE-2019-11744, CVE-2019-11746, CVE-2019-11748, CVE-2019-11749, CVE-2019-11750, CVE-2019-11752) It was discovered that a compromised content process could log in to a malicious Firefox Sync account. An attacker could potentially exploit this, in combination with another vulnerability, to disable the sandbox. (CVE-2019-9812) It was discovered that addons.mozilla.org and accounts.firefox.com could be loaded in to the same content process. An attacker could potentially exploit this, in combination with another vulnerability that allowed a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack, to modify browser settings. (CVE-2019-11741) It was discovered that the
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id128521
    published2019-09-05
    reporterUbuntu Security Notice (C) 2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/128521
    titleUbuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 19.04 : firefox vulnerabilities (USN-4122-1)
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idOPENSUSE-2019-2260.NASL
    descriptionThis update for MozillaFirefox to 68.1 fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : - CVE-2019-9811: Fixed a sandbox escape via installation of malicious language pack. (bsc#1140868) - CVE-2019-9812: Fixed a sandbox escape through Firefox Sync. (bsc#1149294) - CVE-2019-11710: Fixed several memory safety bugs. (bsc#1140868) - CVE-2019-11714: Fixed a potentially exploitable crash in Necko. (bsc#1140868) - CVE-2019-11716: Fixed a sandbox bypass. (bsc#1140868) - CVE-2019-11718: Fixed inadequate sanitation in the Activity Stream component. (bsc#1140868) - CVE-2019-11720: Fixed a character encoding XSS vulnerability. (bsc#1140868) - CVE-2019-11721: Fixed a homograph domain spoofing issue through unicode latin
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id129665
    published2019-10-07
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/129665
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox (openSUSE-2019-2260)
  • NASL familyMacOS X Local Security Checks
    NASL idMACOS_FIREFOX_68_1_ESR.NASL
    descriptionThe version of Firefox ESR installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 68.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2019-26 advisory. Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id128527
    published2019-09-05
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/128527
    titleMozilla Firefox ESR < 68.1
  • NASL familyOracle Linux Local Security Checks
    NASL idORACLELINUX_ELSA-2019-2663.NASL
    descriptionFrom Red Hat Security Advisory 2019:2663 : An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section. [Updated 24 September 2019] Previously, this erratum was marked as having a security impact of Critical. This was incorrect; the security impact of this erratum has been changed to Important, to correctly reflect the highest impact rating of CVE fixes included in this release. No changes have been made to the packages. Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and portability. This update upgrades Firefox to version 68.1.0 ESR. Security Fix(es) : * Mozilla: Sandbox escape through Firefox Sync (CVE-2019-9812) * Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 69 and Firefox ESR 68.1 (CVE-2019-11735) * Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 69, Firefox ESR 68.1, and Firefox ESR 60.9 (CVE-2019-11740) * Mozilla: Same-origin policy violation with SVG filters and canvas to steal cross-origin images (CVE-2019-11742) * Mozilla: XSS by breaking out of title and textarea elements using innerHTML (CVE-2019-11744) * Mozilla: Use-after-free while manipulating video (CVE-2019-11746) * Mozilla: Use-after-free while extracting a key value in IndexedDB (CVE-2019-11752) * Mozilla: Cross-origin access to unload event attributes (CVE-2019-11743) * Mozilla: Persistence of WebRTC permissions in a third party context (CVE-2019-11748) * Mozilla: Camera information available without prompting using getUserMedia (CVE-2019-11749) * Mozilla: Type confusion in Spidermonkey (CVE-2019-11750) * Mozilla: Content security policy bypass through hash-based sources in directives (CVE-2019-11738) * Mozilla:
    last seen2020-05-31
    modified2019-09-09
    plugin id128599
    published2019-09-09
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/128599
    titleOracle Linux 8 : firefox (ELSA-2019-2663)

Redhat

rpms
  • firefox-0:68.1.0-1.el8_0
  • firefox-debuginfo-0:68.1.0-1.el8_0
  • firefox-debugsource-0:68.1.0-1.el8_0