SB2020010952 - Cross-site scripting in firefox (Alpine package)
Published: January 9, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2020010952
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Data manipulation
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-17022)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data within the CSS sanitizer. When pasting a tag from the clipboard into a rich text editor, the CSS sanitizer does not escape < and > characters. If a webpage subsequently copies the node's innerHTML, assigning it to another innerHTML, this would result in an XSS vulnerability.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.