Critical severity · published Apr 26, 2019
CVE-2019-9794
A vulnerability was discovered where specific command line arguments are not properly discarded during Firefox invocation as a shell handler for URLs
9.8
CVSS
1.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A vulnerability was discovered where specific command line arguments are not properly discarded during Firefox invocation as a shell handler for URLs. This could be used to retrieve and execute files whose location is supplied through these command line arguments if Firefox is configured as the default URI handler for a given URI scheme in third party applications and these applications insufficiently sanitize URL data. *Note: This issue only affects Windows operating systems. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 60.6, Firefox ESR < 60.6, and Firefox < 66.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.8% · higher than 78% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FI
Firefox · Mozilla
before 60.6.0; before 66.0 · source: NVD
TH
Thunderbird · Mozilla
before 60.6.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-9794
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-9794
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1530103
Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-07/
Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-08/
Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-11/
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