Unrated severityCISA KEVNVD Advisory· Published Jul 23, 2019· Updated Oct 21, 2025
CVE-2019-11708
CVE-2019-11708
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.
Affected products
3- Range: unspecified
- Range: unspecified
- Mozilla/Firefox ESRv5Range: unspecified
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.
References
5- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-12mitrevendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
- packetstormsecurity.com/files/155592/Mozilla-Firefox-Windows-64-Bit-Chain-Exploit.htmlmitrex_refsource_MISC
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgimitrex_refsource_MISC
- www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-19/mitrex_refsource_MISC
- www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-20/mitrex_refsource_MISC
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