CVE-2019-9801

CVSS V2 Medium 5 CVSS V3 Medium 5.3
Description
Firefox will accept any registered Program ID as an external protocol handler and offer to launch this local application when given a matching URL on Windows operating systems. This should only happen if the program has specifically registered itself as a "URL Handler" in the Windows registry. *Note: This issue only affects Windows operating systems. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 60.6, Firefox ESR < 60.6, and Firefox < 66.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2019-9801
  • Assigner
  • security@mozilla.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2019-04-26T17:29:02
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2019-04-29T20:19:13
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-20 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/20.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
AND
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 66.0
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 60.6
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 60.6
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 0 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 5
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 10
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 5.3
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 1.4
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-11/ Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-08/ Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-07/ Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1527717 Issue Tracking Permissions Required Vendor Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-9801
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-9801
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 17:42:28 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 20:09:28 2019-04-26T17:29Z 2019-04-26T17:29:02 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-03 20:09:28 2019-04-29T20:19:13 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-03 20:09:28 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated