Vulnerabilities > CVE-2019-17020 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 4.3 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
MEDIUM
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
NONE

Summary

If an XML file is served with a Content Security Policy and the XML file includes an XSL stylesheet, the Content Security Policy will not be applied to the contents of the XSL stylesheet. If the XSL sheet e.g. includes JavaScript, it would bypass any of the restrictions of the Content Security Policy applied to the XML document. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 72.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Mozilla
486
OS
Canonical
4

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
  • Server Side Include (SSI) Injection
    An attacker can use Server Side Include (SSI) Injection to send code to a web application that then gets executed by the web server. Doing so enables the attacker to achieve similar results to Cross Site Scripting, viz., arbitrary code execution and information disclosure, albeit on a more limited scale, since the SSI directives are nowhere near as powerful as a full-fledged scripting language. Nonetheless, the attacker can conveniently gain access to sensitive files, such as password files, and execute shell commands.
  • Cross Zone Scripting
    An attacker is able to cause a victim to load content into their web-browser that bypasses security zone controls and gain access to increased privileges to execute scripting code or other web objects such as unsigned ActiveX controls or applets. This is a privilege elevation attack targeted at zone-based web-browser security. In a zone-based model, pages belong to one of a set of zones corresponding to the level of privilege assigned to that page. Pages in an untrusted zone would have a lesser level of access to the system and/or be restricted in the types of executable content it was allowed to invoke. In a cross-zone scripting attack, a page that should be assigned to a less privileged zone is granted the privileges of a more trusted zone. This can be accomplished by exploiting bugs in the browser, exploiting incorrect configuration in the zone controls, through a cross-site scripting attack that causes the attackers' content to be treated as coming from a more trusted page, or by leveraging some piece of system functionality that is accessible from both the trusted and less trusted zone. This attack differs from "Restful Privilege Escalation" in that the latter correlates to the inadequate securing of RESTful access methods (such as HTTP DELETE) on the server, while cross-zone scripting attacks the concept of security zones as implemented by a browser.
  • Cross Site Scripting through Log Files
    An attacker may leverage a system weakness where logs are susceptible to log injection to insert scripts into the system's logs. If these logs are later viewed by an administrator through a thin administrative interface and the log data is not properly HTML encoded before being written to the page, the attackers' scripts stored in the log will be executed in the administrative interface with potentially serious consequences. This attack pattern is really a combination of two other attack patterns: log injection and stored cross site scripting.
  • Command Line Execution through SQL Injection
    An attacker uses standard SQL injection methods to inject data into the command line for execution. This could be done directly through misuse of directives such as MSSQL_xp_cmdshell or indirectly through injection of data into the database that would be interpreted as shell commands. Sometime later, an unscrupulous backend application (or could be part of the functionality of the same application) fetches the injected data stored in the database and uses this data as command line arguments without performing proper validation. The malicious data escapes that data plane by spawning new commands to be executed on the host.

Nessus

  • NASL familyUbuntu Local Security Checks
    NASL idUBUNTU_USN-4234-1.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 cause a denial of service, obtain sensitive information, bypass Content Security Policy (CSP) restrictions, conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, or execute arbitrary code. 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 seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id132854
    published2020-01-13
    reporterUbuntu Security Notice (C) 2020 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/132854
    titleUbuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 19.04 / 19.10 : firefox vulnerabilities (USN-4234-1)
    code
    #
    # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    #
    # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
    # extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4234-1. The text 
    # itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See 
    # <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered 
    # trademark of Canonical, Inc.
    #
    
    include("compat.inc");
    
    if (description)
    {
      script_id(132854);
      script_version("1.4");
      script_cvs_date("Date: 2020/02/14");
    
      script_cve_id("CVE-2019-17016", "CVE-2019-17017", "CVE-2019-17020", "CVE-2019-17022", "CVE-2019-17023", "CVE-2019-17024", "CVE-2019-17025", "CVE-2019-17026");
      script_xref(name:"USN", value:"4234-1");
    
      script_name(english:"Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 19.04 / 19.10 : firefox vulnerabilities (USN-4234-1)");
      script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for updated package.");
    
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"synopsis", 
        value:"The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"description", 
        value:
    "Multiple 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 cause a denial of service, obtain
    sensitive information, bypass Content Security Policy (CSP)
    restrictions, conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, or execute
    arbitrary code.
    
    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."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4234-1/"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"solution", 
        value:"Update the affected firefox package."
      );
      script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
      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:H/I:H/A:H");
      script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2019-17025");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:firefox");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:19.04");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:19.10");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2020/01/08");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/01/09");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/01/13");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
      script_end_attributes();
    
      script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
      script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2020 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
      script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks");
    
      script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
      script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/Ubuntu", "Host/Ubuntu/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
    
      exit(0);
    }
    
    
    include("audit.inc");
    include("ubuntu.inc");
    include("misc_func.inc");
    
    if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled") ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
    release = get_kb_item("Host/Ubuntu/release");
    if ( isnull(release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu");
    release = chomp(release);
    if (! preg(pattern:"^(16\.04|18\.04|19\.04|19\.10)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 16.04 / 18.04 / 19.04 / 19.10", "Ubuntu " + release);
    if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
    
    cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
    if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
    if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu);
    
    flag = 0;
    
    if (ubuntu_check(osver:"16.04", pkgname:"firefox", pkgver:"72.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1")) flag++;
    if (ubuntu_check(osver:"18.04", pkgname:"firefox", pkgver:"72.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1")) flag++;
    if (ubuntu_check(osver:"19.04", pkgname:"firefox", pkgver:"72.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.19.04.1")) flag++;
    if (ubuntu_check(osver:"19.10", pkgname:"firefox", pkgver:"72.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.19.10.1")) flag++;
    
    if (flag)
    {
      security_report_v4(
        port       : 0,
        severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
        extra      : ubuntu_report_get()
      );
      exit(0);
    }
    else
    {
      tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get();
      if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
      else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "firefox");
    }
    
  • NASL familyMacOS X Local Security Checks
    NASL idMACOS_FIREFOX_72_0.NASL
    descriptionThe version of Firefox installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 72.0. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2020-01 advisory, including the following: - When pasting a <style> tag from the clipboard into a rich text editor, the CSS sanitizer incorrectly rewrites a @namespace rule. This could allow for injection into certain types of websites resulting in data exfiltration. (CVE-2019-17016) - Due to a missing case handling object types, a type confusion vulnerability could occur, resulting in a crash. We presume that with enough effort that it could be exploited to run arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-17017) - If an XML file is served with a Content Security Policy and the XML file includes an XSL stylesheet, the Content Security Policy will not be applied to the contents of the XSL stylesheet. If the XSL sheet e.g. includes JavaScript, it would bypass any of the restrictions of the Content Security Policy applied to the XML document. (CVE-2019-17020) - When pasting a <style> tag from the clipboard into a rich text editor, the CSS sanitizer does not escape < and > characters. Because the resulting string is pasted directly into the text node of the element this does not result in a direct injection into the webpage; however, if a webpage subsequently copies the node
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id132708
    published2020-01-08
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/132708
    titleMozilla Firefox < 72.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities
    code
    #
    # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    #
    
    
    # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
    # extracted from Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory mfsa2020-01.
    # The text itself is copyright (C) Mozilla Foundation.
    
    
    include('compat.inc');
    
    if (description)
    {
      script_id(132708);
      script_version("1.5");
      script_cvs_date("Date: 2020/02/14");
    
      script_cve_id(
        "CVE-2019-17016",
        "CVE-2019-17017",
        "CVE-2019-17020",
        "CVE-2019-17022",
        "CVE-2019-17023",
        "CVE-2019-17024",
        "CVE-2019-17025"
      );
      script_xref(name:"MFSA", value:"2020-01");
    
      script_name(english:"Mozilla Firefox < 72.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
    "A web browser installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
    "The version of Firefox installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 72.0. It is, therefore, affected by
    multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2020-01 advisory, including the following:
    
    - When pasting a <style> tag from the clipboard into a rich text editor, the CSS sanitizer incorrectly
      rewrites a @namespace rule. This could allow for injection into certain types of websites resulting in
      data exfiltration. (CVE-2019-17016)
    
    - Due to a missing case handling object types, a type confusion vulnerability could occur, resulting in a
      crash. We presume that with enough effort that it could be exploited to run arbitrary code.
      (CVE-2019-17017)
    
    - If an XML file is served with a Content Security Policy and the XML file includes an XSL stylesheet, the
      Content Security Policy will not be applied to the contents of the XSL stylesheet. If the XSL sheet e.g.
      includes JavaScript, it would bypass any of the restrictions of the Content Security Policy applied to
      the XML document. (CVE-2019-17020)
    
    - When pasting a <style> tag from the clipboard into a rich text editor, the CSS sanitizer does not escape
      < and > characters. Because the resulting string is pasted directly into the text node of the element
      this does not result in a direct injection into the webpage; however, if a webpage subsequently copies
      the node's innerHTML, assigning it to another innerHTML, this would result in an XSS vulnerability. Two
      WYSIWYG editors were identified with this behavior, more may exist. (CVE-2019-17022)
      
    - After a HelloRetryRequest has been sent, the client may negotiate a lower protocol that TLS 1.3,
      resulting in an invalid state transition in the TLS State Machine. If the client gets into this state,
      incoming Application Data records will be ignored. (CVE-2019-17023)
    
    - Mozilla developers Jason Kratzer, Christian Holler, and Bob Clary reported memory safety bugs present in
      Firefox 71 and Firefox ESR 68.3. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume
      that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-17024)
    
    - Mozilla developers Karl Tomlinson, Jason Kratzer, Tyson Smith, Jon Coppeard, and Christian Holler
      reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 71. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory
      corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run
      arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-17025)
    
    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/mfsa2020-01/");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
    "Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox version 72.0 or later.");
      script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
      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:H/I:H/A:H");
      script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2019-17025");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2020/01/07");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/01/07");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/01/08");
    
      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:"MacOS X Local Security Checks");
    
      script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
    
      script_dependencies("macosx_firefox_installed.nasl");
      script_require_keys("MacOSX/Firefox/Installed");
    
      exit(0);
    }
    
    include('mozilla_version.inc');
    
    kb_base = 'MacOSX/Firefox';
    get_kb_item_or_exit(kb_base+'/Installed');
    
    version = get_kb_item_or_exit(kb_base+'/Version', exit_code:1);
    path = get_kb_item_or_exit(kb_base+'/Path', exit_code:1);
    
    is_esr = get_kb_item(kb_base+'/is_esr');
    if (is_esr) exit(0, 'The Mozilla Firefox installation is in the ESR branch.');
    
    mozilla_check_version(version:version, path:path, product:'firefox', esr:FALSE, fix:'72.0', xss:TRUE, severity:SECURITY_WARNING);
    
    
  • NASL familyWindows
    NASL idMOZILLA_FIREFOX_72_0.NASL
    descriptionThe version of Firefox installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 72.0. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2020-01 advisory, including the following: - During the initialization of a new content process, a pointer offset can be manipulated leading to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash in the parent process. (CVE-2019-17015) - When pasting a <style> tag from the clipboard into a rich text editor, the CSS sanitizer incorrectly rewrites a @namespace rule. This could allow for injection into certain types of websites resulting in data exfiltration. (CVE-2019-17016) - Due to a missing case handling object types, a type confusion vulnerability could occur, resulting in a crash. We presume that with enough effort that it could be exploited to run arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-17017) - When in Private Browsing Mode on Windows 10, the Windows keyboard may retain word suggestions to improve the accuracy of the keyboard. (CVE-2019-17018) - When Python was installed on Windows, a python file being served with the MIME type of text/plain could be executed by Python instead of being opened as a text file when the Open option was selected upon download. (CVE-2019-17019) - If an XML file is served with a Content Security Policy and the XML file includes an XSL stylesheet, the Content Security Policy will not be applied to the contents of the XSL stylesheet. If the XSL sheet e.g. includes JavaScript, it would bypass any of the restrictions of the Content Security Policy applied to the XML document. (CVE-2019-17020) - During the initialization of a new content process, a race condition occurs that can allow a content process to disclose heap addresses from the parent process. (CVE-2019-17021) - When pasting a <style> tag from the clipboard into a rich text editor, the CSS sanitizer does not escape < and > characters. Because the resulting string is pasted directly into the text node of the element this does not result in a direct injection into the webpage; however, if a webpage subsequently copies the node
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id132709
    published2020-01-08
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/132709
    titleMozilla Firefox < 72.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities