CVSS 3.1
8.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2019-17015
During the initialization of a new content process, a pointer offset can be manipulated leading to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash in the parent process. *Note: this issue only occurs on Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 68.4 and Firefox < 72.
Severity
- EPSS
- 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 78% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-787
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- mozilla:firefox
- mozilla:firefox_esr
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00029.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00043.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155912/Slackware-Security-Advisory-mozilla-thunderbird-Updates.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1599005
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/18