CVE-2019-17018 — Sensitive Information Exposure in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-200 — Sensitive Information Exposure5 documents5 sources
Severity
5.3MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 63.71%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Mozilla FirefoxDebian Firefox
Timeline
PublishedJan 8
Latest updateMay 24

Description

When in Private Browsing Mode on Windows 10, the Windows keyboard may retain word suggestions to improve the accuracy of the keyboard. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 72.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 1.4

Affected Packages4 packages

▶NVDmozilla/firefox< 72.0
▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxbefore 72
▶mozillamozilla/firefox

Patches

Patch: bugzilla.mozilla.org ↗Patch: bugzilla.mozilla.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-pq8c-jr49-74hj: When in Private Browsing Mode on Windows 10, the Windows keyboard may retain word suggestions to improve the accuracy of the keyboard↗2022-05-24
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OSV
CVE-2019-17018: When in Private Browsing Mode on Windows 10, the Windows keyboard may retain word suggestions to improve the accuracy of the keyboard↗2020-01-08
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Debian
CVE-2019-17018: firefox - When in Private Browsing Mode on Windows 10, the Windows keyboard may retain wor...↗2019
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Mozilla
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2020-01: CVE-2019-17018↗
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