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CVE-2019-17016

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-17016 describes a vulnerability in Firefox and Firefox ESR versions prior to 72 and 68.4, respectively, where an improperly sanitized @namespace rule within a pasted style tag could lead to CSS injection. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.1) requires user interaction (UI:R) and could result in limited data exfiltration (C:L) and integrity impact (I:L) on vulnerable websites. While the vulnerability has a low EPSS score and no known public exploits, Metasploit modules, or community discussion, it is categorized as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation).

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 72.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 68.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.1MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
2.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.99%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0199 is in the 89th percentile among its peer group of 26,234 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (9)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Update Services for SAP SolutionsFixed in: firefox-0:68.4.1-1.el8_0
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: firefox-0:68.4.1-1.el6_10
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: thunderbird-0:68.4.1-2.el6_10
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: firefox-0:68.4.1-1.el7_7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: thunderbird-0:68.4.1-2.el7_7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: firefox-0:68.4.1-1.el8_1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: thunderbird-0:68.4.1-2.el8_1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Update Services for SAP SolutionsFixed in: thunderbird-0:68.4.1-2.el8_0
View patch
mozillavendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-17016Important

Mozilla: Bypass of @namespace CSS sanitization during pasting

Jan 7, 2020

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00029.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00043.html
packetstormsecurity.com / files/155912/Slackware-Security-Advisory-mozilla-thunderbird-Updates.html
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2020:0085
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2020:0086
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2020:0111
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2020:0120
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2020:0123
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2020:0127
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2020:0292
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2020:0295
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
Permissions Required
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00005.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00016.html
seclists.org / bugtraq/2020/Jan/12
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
seclists.org / bugtraq/2020/Jan/18
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
seclists.org / bugtraq/2020/Jan/26
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202003-02
usn.ubuntu.com / 4234-1
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4241-1
usn.ubuntu.com / 4335-1
debian.org / security/2020/dsa-4600
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2020/dsa-4603
mozilla.org / security/advisories/mfsa2020-01
Vendor Advisory
mozilla.org / security/advisories/mfsa2020-02
Vendor Advisory