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Arch Linux: Insufficient validation (CVE-2019-17022)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jan 8, 2020
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

A security issue has been found in Firefox before 72.0, and Thunderbird before 68.4.1 where CSS sanitization does not escape HTML tags. When pasting a <style> tag from the clipboard into a rich text editor, the CSS sanitizer does not escape < and > characters. Because the resulting string is pasted directly into the text node of the element this does not result in a direct injection into the webpage; however, if a webpage subsequently copies the node's innerHTML, assigning it to another innerHTML, this would result in an XSS vulnerability. Two WYSIWYG editors were identified with this behavior, more may exist.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

References

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