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Ubuntu: USN-4165-1 (CVE-2019-17001): Firefox vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4165-1 (CVE-2019-17001): Firefox vulnerabilities

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
10/23/2019
Created
03/05/2020
Added
10/24/2019
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

A Content-Security-Policy that blocks in-line scripts could be bypassed using an object tag to execute JavaScript in the protected document (cross-site scripting). This is a separate bypass from CVE-2019-17000.*Note: This flaw only affected Firefox 69 and was not present in earlier versions.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 70.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-firefox

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