Description
Insufficient vetting of parameters passed with the Prompt:Open IPC message between child and parent processes can result in the non-sandboxed parent process opening web content chosen by a compromised child process. When combined with additional vulnerabilities this could result in executing arbitrary code on the user's computer. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 60.7.2, Firefox < 67.0.4, and Thunderbird < 60.7.2.
Published: 2019-07-23
Score: 10.0 Critical
EPSS: 68.1% High
KEV: Yes
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1836-1 thunderbird security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4471-1 thunderbird security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4474-1 firefox-esr security update
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4032-1 Firefox vulnerability
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4045-1 Thunderbird vulnerabilities
History

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 17:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:esr:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Mozilla firefox Esr

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.65682}

epss

{'score': 0.53987}


Mon, 14 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.62964}

epss

{'score': 0.65682}


Fri, 07 Feb 2025 13:15:00 +0000

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Metrics kev

{'dateAdded': '2022-05-23'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'active', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Wed, 14 Aug 2024 00:30:00 +0000

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References

Subscriptions

Mozilla Firefox Thunderbird
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published:

Updated: 2025-10-21T23:45:33.259Z

Reserved: 2019-05-03T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2019-11708

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T23:03:32.629Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2019-07-23T14:15:15.327

Modified: 2025-10-27T17:04:17.253

Link: CVE-2019-11708

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2019-06-20T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2019-11708 - Bugzilla

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Weaknesses