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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2019-17011

Under certain conditions, when retrieving a document from a DocShell in the antitracking code, a race condition could cause a use-after-free condition and a potentially exploitable crash.

HIGH 7.5EPSS 1.52%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.52%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

Under certain conditions, when retrieving a document from a DocShell in the antitracking code, a race condition could cause a use-after-free condition and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.3, Firefox ESR < 68.3, and Firefox < 71.

CVSS 3.1
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
1.52% probability · 73th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-362
Affected
mozilla/firefox · mozilla/firefox esr · mozilla/thunderbird · opensuse/leap · canonical/ubuntu linux
Source
security@mozilla.org

References

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