CVE-2019-11720

Some unicode characters are incorrectly treated as whitespace during the parsing of web content instead of triggering parsing errors

published July 23, 2019

CVSS
—
EPSS
1%
Percentile
65.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Some unicode characters are incorrectly treated as whitespace during the parsing of web content instead of triggering parsing errors. This allows malicious code to then be processed, evading cross-site scripting (XSS) filtering. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 68.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01085 · 65.0th percentile
Published
2019-07-23T13:17Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 23 JUL 13:17Z
    Some unicode characters are incorrectly treated as whitespace during the parsing of web content instead of triggering parsing errors
    cvelistv5