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.
Published: 2019-04-26
Score: 5.3 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-19163 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.
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Microsoft Windows
Mozilla Firefox Firefox Esr Thunderbird
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T22:01:55.044Z

Reserved: 2019-03-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2019-9801

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-04-26T17:29:02.977

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:52:20.237

Link: CVE-2019-9801

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2019-03-20T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2019-9801 - Bugzilla

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