CVE-2019-11751 Information

Description

Logging-related command line parameters are not properly sanitized when Firefox is launched by another program such as when a user clicks on malicious links in a chat application. This can be used to write a log file to an arbitrary location such as the Windows ‘Startup’ folder. brNote: this issue only affects Firefox on Windows operating systems.. This vulnerability affects Firefox 69 and Firefox ESR 68.1.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00011.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00017.html https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1572838 https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-25/ https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-26/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

8.8