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VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2019-11759

An attacker could have caused 4 bytes of HMAC output to be written past the end of a buffer stored on the stack.

HIGH 8.8EPSS 1.80%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.80%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

An attacker could have caused 4 bytes of HMAC output to be written past the end of a buffer stored on the stack. This could be used by an attacker to execute arbitrary code or more likely lead to a crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 70, Thunderbird < 68.2, and Firefox ESR < 68.2.

CVSS 3.1
8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
1.80% probability · 77th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-120
Affected
mozilla/firefox · mozilla/firefox esr · mozilla/thunderbird · canonical/ubuntu linux
Source
security@mozilla.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.