CVE-2019-9818 — Race Condition in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-362 — Race ConditionCWE-416 — Use After Free6 documents6 sources
Severity
8.3HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.3%
top 43.01%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
6
Mozilla FirefoxMozilla Firefox ESRMozilla Thunderbird+3 more
Timeline
PublishedJul 23
Latest updateMay 24

Description

A race condition is present in the crash generation server used to generate data for the crash reporter. This issue can lead to a use-after-free in the main process, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash and a sandbox escape. *Note: this vulnerability only affects Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 60.7, Firefox < 67, and Firefox ESR < 60.7.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.6 | Impact: 6.0

Affected Packages9 packages

▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified — 67
▶NVDmozilla/firefox< 67.0
▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefox_esrunspecified — 60.7

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-r9p3-38m2-qxq8: A race condition is present in the crash generation server used to generate data for the crash reporter↗2022-05-24
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OSV
CVE-2019-9818: A race condition is present in the crash generation server used to generate data for the crash reporter↗2019-07-23
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
Mozilla: Use-after-free in crash generation server↗2019-05-22
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Debian
CVE-2019-9818: firefox - A race condition is present in the crash generation server used to generate data...↗2019
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-9818 Mozilla: Use-after-free in crash generation server↗2019-05-22
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