Bug 1730983 (CVE-2019-11720) - CVE-2019-11720 Mozilla: Character encoding XSS vulnerability
Summary: CVE-2019-11720 Mozilla: Character encoding XSS vulnerability
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2019-11720
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1730979
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Reported: 2019-07-18 06:00 UTC by Doran Moppert
Modified: 2021-02-16 21:41 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: firefox 68
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Last Closed: 2019-07-18 21:06:49 UTC

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Description Doran Moppert 2019-07-18 06:00:48 UTC 
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. 



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https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-21/#CVE-2019-11720
Comment 1 Doran Moppert 2019-07-18 06:00:50 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Rakesh Mane
Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-07-18 21:06:49 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-11720
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