CVE-2019-17023

MEDIUM

Firefox < 72.0 - Denial of Service via TLS State Machine Mismanagement

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

After a HelloRetryRequest has been sent, the client may negotiate a lower protocol that TLS 1.3, resulting in an invalid state transition in the TLS State Machine. If the client gets into this state, incoming Application Data records will be ignored. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 72.

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Issue Tracking, Permissions Required x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1590001
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-01/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4234-1/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4397-1/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4726

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0090
EPSS Percentile 75.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-287
Status published
Products (7)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 19.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 19.10
canonical/ubuntu_linux 20.04
debian/debian_linux 10.0
mozilla/firefox < 72.0
Published Jan 08, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026