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CVE-2019-11708

Published: Jul 23, 2019

Modified: Oct 21, 2025

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Description

Insufficient vetting of parameters passed with the Prompt:Open IPC message between child and parent processes can result in the non-sandboxed parent process opening web content chosen by a compromised child process. When combined with additional vulnerabilities this could result in executing arbitrary code on the user's computer. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 60.7.2, Firefox < 67.0.4, and Thunderbird < 60.7.2.

Vendor	Product	Versions
Mozilla	Firefox ESR	affected `unspecified - < 60.7.2`
Mozilla	Firefox	affected `unspecified - < 67.0.4`
Mozilla	Thunderbird	affected `unspecified - < 60.7.2`

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-19/

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https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-20/

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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1559858

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vendor-advisory

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http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155592/Mozilla-Firefox-Windows-64-Bit-Chain-Exploit.html

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