CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-11751
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-09-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-88
Description
Logging-related command line parameters are not properly sanitized when Firefox is launched by another program, such as when a user clicks on malicious links in a chat application. This can be used to write a log file to an arbitrary location such as the Windows 'Startup' folder. <br>*Note: this issue only affects Firefox on Windows operating systems.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 69 and Firefox ESR < 68.1.
Affected configurations
• mozilla firefox (< 69.0)
• mozilla firefox esr (< 68.1.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-88 Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00011.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00017.html lists.opensuse.org
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1572838 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-25/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-26/ Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00011.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00017.html lists.opensuse.org
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1572838 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-25/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-26/ Vendor Advisory