Description

Some unicode characters are incorrectly treated as whitespace during the parsing of web content instead of triggering parsing errors. This allows malicious code to then be processed, evading cross-site scripting (XSS) filtering. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 68.

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00009.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00010.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00011.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00017.html

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1556230

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-12

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-21/

Details

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3