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CVE-2019-11698 — If a crafted hyperlink is dragged and dropped to the bookmark bar or sidebar and

If a crafted hyperlink is dragged and dropped to the bookmark bar or sidebar and the resulting bookmark is subsequently dragged and dropped into the web content area, an arbitrary query of a user's browser history can be run and transmitted to the content page via drop event

CVSS
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EPSS
0.38% (top 40.90%)
CWE
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Published
2019-07-23T13:21:58.000Z
Last modified
2024-08-04T23:03:32.445Z
CVSS vector
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01What is this vulnerability?

If a crafted hyperlink is dragged and dropped to the bookmark bar or sidebar and the resulting bookmark is subsequently dragged and dropped into the web content area, an arbitrary query of a user's browser history can be run and transmitted to the content page via drop event data. This allows for the theft of browser history by a malicious site. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 60.7…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
MozillaThunderbirdunspecified
MozillaFirefoxunspecified
MozillaFirefox ESRunspecified

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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