Information Leakage

firefox is vulnerable to information leakage. A vulnerability exists during the installation of add-ons where the initial fetch ignored the origin attributes of the browsing context. This could leak cookies in private browsing mode or across different "containers" for people who use the Firefox...

CVE-2019-8769

An issue existed in the drawing of web page elements. The issue was addressed with improved logic. This issue is fixed in iOS 13.1 and iPadOS 13.1, macOS Catalina 10.15. Visiting a maliciously crafted website may reveal browsing history...

CVE-2019-8768

"Clear History and Website Data" did not clear the history. The issue was addressed with improved data deletion. This issue is fixed in macOS Catalina 10.15. A user may be unable to delete browsing history items...

What is a VPN and How Does it Increase Your Online Security and Privacy?

The number of VPN users has grown considerably over the past few years. According to the report of Go-Globe, 25% of netizens worldwide have used a VPN at least once in the last 30 days. Recently, VPN usage has surged in many countries and its popularity may see VPN usage surpass the estimated...

Identifying People by Their Browsing Histories

Interesting paper: "Replication: Why We Still Can't Browse in Peace: On the Uniqueness and Reidentifiability of Web Browsing Histories": We examine the threat to individuals' privacy based on the feasibility of reidentifying users through distinctive profiles of their browsing history visible to...

Lib/webbrowser.py in Python through 3.6.3 does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable which might allow remote attackers to conduct argument-injection attacks via a crafted URL. NOTE: a software maintainer indicates that exploitation is impossible because the code relies on subprocess.Popen and the default shell=False setting

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Updated thunderbird packages fix security vulnerability

If Thunderbird is configured to use STARTTLS for an IMAP server, and the server sends a PREAUTH response, then Thunderbird will continue with an unencrypted connection, causing email data to be sent without protection CVE-2020-12398. When browsing a malicious page, a race condition in our...

About the security content of Safari 13.0.1 - Apple Support

About Apple security updates For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are available. Recent releases are listed on the Apple security updates page. Apple security documents reference...

Browsing serverInfo anonymously gives version number information

h3. Issue Summary Browsing serverInfo anonymously gives version number information h3. Steps to Reproduce curl https:///rest/api/2/serverInfo navigate to https:///rest/api/2/serverInfo in a browser h3. Expected Results Fail to connect h3. Actual Results The below exception is thrown in the...

CVE-2020-12414

IndexedDB should be cleared when leaving private browsing mode and it is not, the API for WKWebViewConfiguration was being used incorrectly and requires the private instance of this object be deleted when leaving private mode. This vulnerability affects Firefox for iOS 27...

Path traversal

When browsing a document hosted on an IP address, an attacker could insert certain characters to flip domain and path information in the address bar. This vulnerability affects Firefox 77...

CVE-2020-12414

IndexedDB should be cleared when leaving private browsing mode and it is not, the API for WKWebViewConfiguration was being used incorrectly and requires the private instance of this object be deleted when leaving private mode. This vulnerability affects Firefox for iOS 27...

Code injection

IndexedDB should be cleared when leaving private browsing mode and it is not, the API for WKWebViewConfiguration was being used incorrectly and requires the private instance of this object be deleted when leaving private mode. This vulnerability affects Firefox for iOS 27...

CVE-2020-12414

CVE-2020-12414 affects Firefox for iOS prior to version 27. The issue is that IndexedDB is not cleared upon leaving Private Browsing mode due to incorrect use of WKWebViewConfiguration API, which requires the private instance to be deleted when exiting private mode. Published references confirm M...

CVE-2020-12414

IndexedDB should be cleared when leaving private browsing mode and it is not, the API for WKWebViewConfiguration was being used incorrectly and requires the private instance of this object be deleted when leaving private mode. This vulnerability affects Firefox for iOS 27...

CVE-2020-12408

When browsing a document hosted on an IP address, an attacker could insert certain characters to flip domain and path information in the address bar. This vulnerability affects Firefox 77...

CVE-2020-12408

When browsing a document hosted on an IP address, an attacker could insert certain characters to flip domain and path information in the address bar. This vulnerability affects Firefox 77...

CVE-2020-12408

When browsing a document hosted on an IP address, an attacker could insert certain characters to flip domain and path information in the address bar. This vulnerability affects Firefox 77...

CVE-2020-12414: Incomplete Cleanup

IndexedDB should be cleared when leaving private browsing mode and it is not, the API for WKWebViewConfiguration was being used incorrectly and requires the private instance of this object be deleted when leaving private mode. This vulnerability affects Firefox for iOS 27...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: Stored XSS via Comment Form at ████████

Summary: An attacker can submit a comment form with injected HTML, leading to a number of malicious effects Step-by-step Reproduction Instructions 1. Browse to https://████ 2. Complete the form. I placed " in the Name field. Some example payloads for the Comments field are as follows: For...