CVE-2019-17012
Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.97%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 70 and Firefox ESR 68.2. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.3, Firefox ESR < 68.3, and Firefox < 71.
- 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
- 1.97% probability · 80th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-787
- Affected
- mozilla/firefox · mozilla/firefox esr · mozilla/thunderbird · opensuse/leap · canonical/ubuntu linux
- Source
- security@mozilla.org
EPSS 2.0% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00000.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00001.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0292Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0295Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1449736%2C1533957%2C1560667%2C1567209%2C1580288%2C1585760%2C1592502Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-02Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-10Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4241-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4335-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-36/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-37/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-38/Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00000.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00001.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0292Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0295Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1449736%2C1533957%2C1560667%2C1567209%2C1580288%2C1585760%2C1592502Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-02Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-10Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4241-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4335-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-36/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-37/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-38/Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.