CVE-2019-11763
Failure to correctly handle null bytes when processing HTML entities resulted in Firefox incorrectly parsing these entities. This could have led to HTML comment text being treated as HTML which could
02 Description
Failure to correctly handle null bytes when processing HTML entities resulted in Firefox incorrectly parsing these entities. This could have led to HTML comment text being treated as HTML which could
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.14% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 66.5% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 6.1 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2020-01-08 19:59Z6 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 23:03Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2019-05-03
- Assigning CNA
- mozilla
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- e45025c1c6adf23dfbd643a8d40e3591104c2f9c7610e111536e36d3b03ffdfe
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-35/
- www.mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-33/
- www.mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-34/
- bugzilla.mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1584216
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-202003-10https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-10
- usn.ubuntu.comUSN-4335-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/4335-1/
07 Fixed in
Arch Linux
- firefox Fixed in 70.0-1
- thunderbird Fixed in 68.2.0-1
Source: Arch Linux Security Tracker, the Arch Linux security team. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 12
- firefox-esr Fixed in 68.2.0esr-1
- thunderbird Fixed in 1:68.2.1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- firefox-esr Fixed in 68.2.0esr-1
- thunderbird Fixed in 1:68.2.1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- firefox-esr Fixed in 68.2.0esr-1
- thunderbird Fixed in 1:68.2.1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- firefox Fixed in 70.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
- thunderbird Fixed in 1:68.7.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- firefox Fixed in 70.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
- mozjs38 No fix yet
- mozjs52 No fix yet
- thunderbird Fixed in 1:68.2.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- firefox Fixed in 70.0+build2-0ubuntu1
- mozjs52 No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.