{"id":"CVE-2019-17011","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2019-17011","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T22:32:52.837Z","title":"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.","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.","published":"2020-01-08T22:15:12.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:23:09.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"security@mozilla.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-362"],"affected":["mozilla/firefox","mozilla/firefox esr","mozilla/thunderbird","opensuse/leap","canonical/ubuntu linux"],"epss":{"score":0.01524,"percentile":0.74471,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"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."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00000.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@mozilla.org"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00001.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@mozilla.org"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0292","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@mozilla.org"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0295","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@mozilla.org"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1591334","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"security@mozilla.org"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-02","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@mozilla.org"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-10","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@mozilla.org"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4241-1/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@mozilla.org"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4335-1/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@mozilla.org"},{"url":"https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-36/","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"security@mozilla.org"},{"url":"https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-37/","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"security@mozilla.org"},{"url":"https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-38/","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"security@mozilla.org"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00000.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00001.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0292","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0295","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1591334","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-02","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-10","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4241-1/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4335-1/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-36/","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-37/","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-38/","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17011","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}