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Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-11698: Theft of user history data through drag and drop of

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-11698: Theft of user history data through drag and drop of

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
07/23/2019
Created
12/18/2019
Added
11/08/2019
Modified
12/27/2019

Description

If a crafted hyperlink is dragged and dropped to the bookmark bar or sidebar and the resulting bookmark is subsequently dragged and dropped into the web content area, an arbitrary query of a user's browser history can be run and transmitted to the content page via drop event data. This allows for the theft of browser history by a malicious site. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 60.7, Firefox < 67, and Firefox ESR < 60.7.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-firefox-esr

References

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