CVE-2019-9794

CRITICAL

Firefox - Command Injection

Title source: llm

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0043
EPSS Percentile 62.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-88
Status published

Affected Products (2)

mozilla/firefox < 60.6.0
mozilla/thunderbird < 60.6.0

Timeline

Published Apr 26, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026