CVE-2019-11721
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4054-1
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Exploit Likelihood
Affected Versions
Public Exploits
1Exploited in Wild
-Decision
Descriptions
The unicode latin 'kra' character can be used to spoof a standard 'k' character in the addressbar. This allows for domain spoofing attacks as do not display as punycode text, allowing for user confusion. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 68.
El carácter latino 'kra' de Unicode puede ser usado para falsificar un carácter 'k' estándar en la barra de direcciones. Esto permite que los ataques de suplantación de dominio no se muestren como texto de código púny, lo que permite la confusión del usuario. Esta vulnerabilidad afecta a Firefox anterior a versión 68.
A sandbox escape was discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to installing a malicious language pack, an attacker could exploit this to gain additional privileges. Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, obtain sensitive information, bypass same origin restrictions, conduct cross-site scripting attacks, conduct cross-site request forgery attacks, spoof origin attributes, spoof the addressbar contents, bypass safebrowsing protections, or execute arbitrary code. Various other issues were also addressed.
CVSS Scores
SSVC
- Decision:-
Timeline
- 2019-05-03 CVE Reserved
- 2019-07-12 CVE Published
- 2024-08-04 CVE Updated
- 2024-08-04 First Exploit
- 2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
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- ---------- KEV Due Date
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References (7)
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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1256009 | 2024-08-04 |
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Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
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Mozilla Search vendor "Mozilla" | Firefox Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox" | < 68.0 Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox" and version " < 68.0" | - |
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Opensuse Search vendor "Opensuse" | Leap Search vendor "Opensuse" for product "Leap" | 15.0 Search vendor "Opensuse" for product "Leap" and version "15.0" | - |
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Opensuse Search vendor "Opensuse" | Leap Search vendor "Opensuse" for product "Leap" | 15.1 Search vendor "Opensuse" for product "Leap" and version "15.1" | - |
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