Mozilla Firefox up to 73.x CSS Block injection

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A vulnerability has been found in Mozilla Firefox up to 73.x and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component CSS Block Handler. The manipulation leads to injection. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2020-6813. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox up to 73.x (Web Browser). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown part of the component CSS Block Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-74. The product constructs all or part of a command, data structure, or record using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify how it is parsed or interpreted when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

When protecting CSS blocks with the nonce feature of Content Security Policy, the @import statement in the CSS block could allow an attacker to inject arbitrary styles, bypassing the intent of the Content Security Policy. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 74.

The weakness was released 03/25/2020. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2020-6813 since 01/10/2020. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 03/26/2020). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1055 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 74.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-152353, VDB-152348 and VDB-152347. Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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• Web Browser

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• Mozilla

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• Firefox

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• 73.x

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• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.mozilla.org/
• Product: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

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