| Name | CVE-2019-9794 |
| Description | A vulnerability was discovered where specific command line arguments are not properly discarded during Firefox invocation as a shell handler for URLs. This could be used to retrieve and execute files whose location is supplied through these command line arguments if Firefox is configured as the default URI handler for a given URI scheme in third party applications and these applications insufficiently sanitize URL data. *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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| firefox (PTS) | sid | 125.0.1-2 | fixed |
| firefox-esr (PTS) | buster | 91.12.0esr-1~deb10u1 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 115.10.0esr-1~deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 115.7.0esr-1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 115.10.0esr-1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 115.7.0esr-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 115.10.0esr-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| trixie | 115.8.0esr-1 | fixed |
| sid | 115.10.0esr-1 | fixed |
| thunderbird (PTS) | buster | 1:91.12.0-1~deb10u1 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 1:115.9.0-1~deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 1:115.7.0-1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 1:115.9.0-1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1:115.7.0-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 1:115.9.0-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid | 1:115.9.0-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| firefox | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
| firefox-esr | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
| thunderbird | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
Notes
- firefox-esr <not-affected> (Windows-specific)
- firefox <not-affected> (Windows-specific)
- thunderbird <not-affected> (Windows-specific)
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-08/#CVE-2019-9794
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-07/#CVE-2019-9794
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-11/#CVE-2019-9794