mozilla firefox CVE-2019-11708 vulnerability in Mozilla Products
Published on July 23, 2019

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Insufficient vetting of parameters passed with the Prompt:Open IPC message between child and parent processes can result in the non-sandboxed parent process opening web content chosen by a compromised child process. When combined with additional vulnerabilities this could result in executing arbitrary code on the user's computer. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 60.7.2, Firefox < 67.0.4, and Thunderbird < 60.7.2.

Vendor Advisory NVD

Known Exploited Vulnerability

This Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Sandbox Escape Vulnerability is part of CISA's list of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities. Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird contain a sandbox escape vulnerability that could result in remote code execution.

The following remediation steps are recommended / required by June 13, 2022: Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2019-11708 is exploitable with network access, and does not require authorization privileges or user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. This vulnerability is known to be actively exploited by threat actors. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be critical as this vulnerability has a high impact to the confidentiality, integrity and availability of this component.

Attack Vector:
NETWORK
Attack Complexity:
LOW
Privileges Required:
NONE
User Interaction:
NONE
Scope:
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact:
HIGH
Integrity Impact:
HIGH
Availability Impact:
HIGH

Weakness Type

Improper Input Validation

The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.


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Affected Versions

Mozilla Firefox ESR: Mozilla Firefox: Mozilla Thunderbird:

Exploit Probability

EPSS
68.89%
Percentile
98.60%

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) scores estimate the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. The percentile shows you how this score compares to all other vulnerabilities.