Improper Input Validation Affecting mozilla package, versions [,60.6.0)(60.6.0,66.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.41% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2379297
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed26 Apr 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Apr 2019

CVE-2019-9794  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 60.6.0, 66.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation. 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.

CVSS Scores

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