Vulnerabilities > CVE-2019-11754 - Unspecified vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
NONE Summary
When the pointer lock is enabled by a website though requestPointerLock(), no user notification is given. This could allow a malicious website to hijack the mouse pointer and confuse users. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 69.0.1.
Vulnerable Configurations
Nessus
NASL family Windows NASL id MOZILLA_FIREFOX_69_0_1.NASL description The version of Firefox installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 69.0.1. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerability as referenced in the mfsa2019-31 advisory: - When the pointer lock is enabled by a website though requestPointerLock(), no user notification is given. This could allow a malicious website to hijack the mouse pointer and confuse users. Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 129101 published 2019-09-23 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/129101 title Mozilla Firefox < 69.0.1 code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory mfsa2019-31. # The text itself is copyright (C) Mozilla Foundation. include('compat.inc'); if (description) { script_id(129101); script_version("1.7"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/11/08"); script_cve_id("CVE-2019-11754"); script_xref(name:"MFSA", value:"2019-31"); script_name(english:"Mozilla Firefox < 69.0.1"); script_summary(english:"Checks version of Mozilla Firefox"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value: "A web browser installed on the remote Windows host is affected by a vulnerability."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value: "The version of Firefox installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 69.0.1. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerability as referenced in the mfsa2019-31 advisory: - When the pointer lock is enabled by a website though requestPointerLock(), no user notification is given. This could allow a malicious website to hijack the mouse pointer and confuse users. Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-31/"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value: "Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox version 69.0.1 or later."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N"); script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2019-11754"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2019/09/18"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/09/18"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/09/23"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_family(english:"Windows"); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_dependencies("mozilla_org_installed.nasl"); script_require_keys("Mozilla/Firefox/Version"); exit(0); } include('mozilla_version.inc'); port = get_kb_item('SMB/transport'); if (!port) port = 445; installs = get_kb_list('SMB/Mozilla/Firefox/*'); if (isnull(installs)) audit(AUDIT_NOT_INST, 'Firefox'); mozilla_check_version(installs:installs, product:'firefox', esr:FALSE, fix:'69.0.1', severity:SECURITY_WARNING);
NASL family MacOS X Local Security Checks NASL id MACOS_FIREFOX_69_0_1.NASL description The version of Firefox installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 69.0.1. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerability as referenced in the mfsa2019-31 advisory: - When the pointer lock is enabled by a website though requestPointerLock(), no user notification is given. This could allow a malicious website to hijack the mouse pointer and confuse users. Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 129100 published 2019-09-23 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/129100 title Mozilla Firefox < 69.0.1 NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-4140-1.NASL description It was discovered that no user notification was given when pointer lock is enabled. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to hijack the mouse pointer and confuse users. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 129385 published 2019-09-26 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/129385 title Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 19.04 : firefox vulnerability (USN-4140-1)