CVE-2019-9794
CRITICALFirefox - Command Injection
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (4)
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