High severity · published Jan 8, 2020
CVE-2019-17005
The plain text serializer used a fixed-size array for the number of <ol> elements it could process; however it was possible to overflow the static-sized array leading to memory…
8.8
CVSS
1.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
The plain text serializer used a fixed-size array for the number of <ol> elements it could process; however it was possible to overflow the static-sized array leading to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.3, Firefox ESR < 68.3, and Firefox < 71.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.9% · higher than 80% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FI
Firefox · Mozilla
before 71.0 · source: NVD
FE
Firefox Esr · Mozilla
before 68.3 · source: NVD
LE
Leap · Opensuse
15.1 · source: NVD
TH
Thunderbird · Mozilla
before 68.3 · source: NVD
UL
Ubuntu Linux · Canonical
16.04; 18.04; 19.10 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17005
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-17005
Issue Tracking
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00000.html
Issue Tracking
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00001.html
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0292
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0295
Exploit
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1584170
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-02
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