CVE-2019-9794

CRITICAL

Firefox < 66 and Thunderbird < 60.6 - Argument Injection via URL Handler Command Line Arguments

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1530103

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0058
EPSS Percentile 69.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-88
Status published
Products (2)
mozilla/firefox < 60.6.0
mozilla/thunderbird < 60.6.0
Published Apr 26, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026