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MFSA2019-25 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 69 (CVE-2019-11751)

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MFSA2019-25 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 69 (CVE-2019-11751)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/03/2019
Created
09/04/2019
Added
09/04/2019
Modified
10/04/2019

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. <br>*Note: this issue only affects Firefox on Windows operating systems.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 69 and Firefox ESR < 68.1.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-69_0

References

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