CVE-2019-11748 — Improper Preservation of Permissions in Mozilla Firefox
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV9.8
EPSS
0.3%
top 46.65%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedSep 27
Latest updateMay 24
Description
WebRTC in Firefox will honor persisted permissions given to sites for access to microphone and camera resources even when in a third-party context. In light of recent high profile vulnerabilities in other software, a decision was made to no longer persist these permissions. This avoids the possibility of trusted WebRTC resources being invisibly embedded in web content and abusing permissions previously given by users. Users will now be prompted for permissions on each use. This vulnerability aff…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages7 packages
🔴Vulnerability Details
4GHSA▶
GHSA-pf67-g7x9-r27m: WebRTC in Firefox will honor persisted permissions given to sites for access to microphone and camera resources even when in a third-party context↗2022-05-24
OSV▶
CVE-2019-11748: WebRTC in Firefox will honor persisted permissions given to sites for access to microphone and camera resources even when in a third-party context↗2019-09-27