CVE-2019-17024

Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 72 and Firefox ESR 68.4

Severity Score

8.8

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 71 and Firefox ESR 68.3. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 68.4 and Firefox < 72.

Los desarrolladores de Mozilla reportaron bugs de seguridad de memoria presentes en Firefox versión 71 y Firefox ESR versión 68.3. Algunos de estos errores mostraron evidencia de corrupción de memoria y suponemos que con un esfuerzo suficiente algunos de estos podrían haber sido explotados para ejecutar código arbitrario. Esta vulnerabilidad afecta a Firefox ESR versiones anteriores a la versión 68.4 y Firefox versiones anteriores a la versión 72.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Medium

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

Partial

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2019-09-30 CVE Reserved
2020-01-08 CVE Published
2024-07-06 EPSS Updated
2024-08-05 CVE Updated
2024-08-05 First Exploit
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

CWE-120: Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write

CAPEC

References (27)

URL	Tag	Source
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00005.html	Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00016.html	Mailing List
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/12	Mailing List
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/18	Mailing List
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/26	Mailing List

URL	Date	SRC
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155912/Slackware-Security-Advisory-mozilla-thunderbird-Updates.html	2024-08-05

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00029.html	2022-04-08
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00043.html	2022-04-08
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0085	2022-04-08
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0086	2022-04-08
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0111	2022-04-08
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0120	2022-04-08
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0123	2022-04-08
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0127	2022-04-08
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0292	2022-04-08
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0295	2022-04-08
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1507180%2C1595470%2C1598605%2C1601826	2022-04-08
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-02	2022-04-08
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4234-1	2022-04-08
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4241-1	2022-04-08
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4335-1	2022-04-08
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4600	2022-04-08
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4603	2022-04-08
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-01	2022-04-08
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-02	2022-04-08
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-17024	2020-01-30
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1788727	2020-01-30

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Mozilla Search vendor "Mozilla"		Firefox Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox"				< 72.0 Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox" and version " < 72.0"		-		Affected
Mozilla Search vendor "Mozilla"		Firefox Esr Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox Esr"				< 68.4 Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox Esr" and version " < 68.4"		-		Affected
Canonical Search vendor "Canonical"		Ubuntu Linux Search vendor "Canonical" for product "Ubuntu Linux"				16.04 Search vendor "Canonical" for product "Ubuntu Linux" and version "16.04"		esm		Affected
Canonical Search vendor "Canonical"		Ubuntu Linux Search vendor "Canonical" for product "Ubuntu Linux"				18.04 Search vendor "Canonical" for product "Ubuntu Linux" and version "18.04"		lts		Affected
Canonical Search vendor "Canonical"		Ubuntu Linux Search vendor "Canonical" for product "Ubuntu Linux"				19.04 Search vendor "Canonical" for product "Ubuntu Linux" and version "19.04"		-		Affected
Canonical Search vendor "Canonical"		Ubuntu Linux Search vendor "Canonical" for product "Ubuntu Linux"				19.10 Search vendor "Canonical" for product "Ubuntu Linux" and version "19.10"		-		Affected
Debian Search vendor "Debian"		Debian Linux Search vendor "Debian" for product "Debian Linux"				8.0 Search vendor "Debian" for product "Debian Linux" and version "8.0"		-		Affected
Debian Search vendor "Debian"		Debian Linux Search vendor "Debian" for product "Debian Linux"				9.0 Search vendor "Debian" for product "Debian Linux" and version "9.0"		-		Affected
Debian Search vendor "Debian"		Debian Linux Search vendor "Debian" for product "Debian Linux"				10.0 Search vendor "Debian" for product "Debian Linux" and version "10.0"		-		Affected
Redhat Search vendor "Redhat"		Enterprise Linux Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux"				8.0 Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux" and version "8.0"		-		Affected
Redhat Search vendor "Redhat"		Enterprise Linux Desktop Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Desktop"				6.0 Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Desktop" and version "6.0"		-		Affected
Redhat Search vendor "Redhat"		Enterprise Linux Desktop Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Desktop"				7.0 Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Desktop" and version "7.0"		-		Affected
Redhat Search vendor "Redhat"		Enterprise Linux Eus Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Eus"				7.7 Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Eus" and version "7.7"		-		Affected
Redhat Search vendor "Redhat"		Enterprise Linux Eus Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Eus"				8.1 Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Eus" and version "8.1"		-		Affected
Redhat Search vendor "Redhat"		Enterprise Linux Eus Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Eus"				8.2 Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Eus" and version "8.2"		-		Affected
Redhat Search vendor "Redhat"		Enterprise Linux Eus Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Eus"				8.4 Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Eus" and version "8.4"		-		Affected
Redhat Search vendor "Redhat"		Enterprise Linux Server Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Server"				6.0 Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Server" and version "6.0"		-		Affected
Redhat Search vendor "Redhat"		Enterprise Linux Server Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Server"				7.0 Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Server" and version "7.0"		-		Affected
Redhat Search vendor "Redhat"		Enterprise Linux Server Aus Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Server Aus"				7.7 Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Server Aus" and version "7.7"		-		Affected
Redhat Search vendor "Redhat"		Enterprise Linux Server Aus Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Server Aus"				8.2 Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Server Aus" and version "8.2"		-		Affected
Redhat Search vendor "Redhat"		Enterprise Linux Server Aus Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Server Aus"				8.4 Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Server Aus" and version "8.4"		-		Affected
Redhat Search vendor "Redhat"		Enterprise Linux Server Tus Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Server Tus"				7.7 Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Server Tus" and version "7.7"		-		Affected
Redhat Search vendor "Redhat"		Enterprise Linux Server Tus Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Server Tus"				8.2 Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Server Tus" and version "8.2"		-		Affected
Redhat Search vendor "Redhat"		Enterprise Linux Server Tus Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Server Tus"				8.4 Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Server Tus" and version "8.4"		-		Affected
Redhat Search vendor "Redhat"		Enterprise Linux Workstation Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Workstation"				6.0 Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Workstation" and version "6.0"		-		Affected
Redhat Search vendor "Redhat"		Enterprise Linux Workstation Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Workstation"				7.0 Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Workstation" and version "7.0"		-		Affected
Opensuse Search vendor "Opensuse"		Leap Search vendor "Opensuse" for product "Leap"				15.1 Search vendor "Opensuse" for product "Leap" and version "15.1"		-		Affected