Description

A vulnerability exists where the caret ("^") character is improperly escaped constructing some URIs due to it being used as a separator, allowing for possible spoofing of origin attributes. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 60.8, Firefox < 68, and Thunderbird < 60.8.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 5.3/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-116

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
Mozilla	Firefox ESR	>= unspecified, < 60.8
Mozilla	Firefox	>= unspecified, < 68
Mozilla	Thunderbird	>= unspecified, < 60.8

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00055.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00058.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00073.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00009.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00010.htmlThird Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548306Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00001.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00002.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-12Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-20Third Party Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-21/Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-22/Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-23/Vendor Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00055.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00058.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00073.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00009.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00010.htmlThird Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548306Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00001.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00002.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-12Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-20Third Party Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-21/Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-22/Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-23/Vendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: Jul 23, 2019
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

CVE-2019-11717