CVE-2019-9801

Name
CVE-2019-9801
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.
NVD Severity
medium
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
Vendor Advisory https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-11/
Vendor Advisory https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-08/
Vendor Advisory https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-07/
Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1527717

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
firefox-esr edge-community 60.6.1-r0 None fixed
firefox-esr 3.22-community 60.6.1-r0 None fixed
firefox-esr 3.21-community 60.6.1-r0 None fixed
firefox-esr 3.20-community 60.6.1-r0 None fixed
firefox-esr 3.19-community 60.6.1-r0 None fixed
firefox-esr 3.18-community 60.6.1-r0 None fixed
firefox-esr 3.17-community 60.6.1-r0 None fixed