USN-4054-1

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    USN-4054-1

    Published: 12 Jul 2019Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026

    Summary: firefox vulnerabilities

    Details: 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. (CVE-2019-9811) 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 (XSS) attacks, conduct cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks, spoof origin attributes, spoof the addressbar contents, bypass safebrowsing protections, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-11709, CVE-2019-11710, CVE-2019-11711, CVE-2019-11712, CVE-2019-11713, CVE-2019-11714, CVE-2019-11715, CVE-2019-11716, CVE-2019-11717, CVE-2019-11718, CVE-2019-11719, CVE-2019-11720, CVE-2019-11721, CVE-2019-11723, CVE-2019-11724, CVE-2019-11725, CVE-2019-11727, CVE-2019-11728, CVE-2019-11729) It was discovered that Firefox treats all files in a directory as same origin. If a user were tricked in to downloading a specially crafted HTML file, an attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive information from local files. (CVE-2019-11730)

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4054-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-9811, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-11709, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-11710, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-11711, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-11712, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-11713, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-11714, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-11715, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-11716, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-11717, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-11718, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-11719, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-11720, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-11721, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-11723, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-11724, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-11725, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-11727, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-11728, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-11729, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-11730

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: firefox

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -68.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

    Affected versions

    41.0.2+build2-0ubuntu1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High