Mozilla Firefox/Firefox ESR/Thunderbird on Windows CLI Command Line Argument argument injection

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Mozilla Firefox, Firefox ESR and Thunderbird on Windows. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component CLI. The manipulation as part of Command Line Argument leads to input validation. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2019-9794. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox, Firefox ESR and Thunderbird on Windows (Web Browser) (the affected version is unknown) and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown code of the component CLI. The manipulation as part of a Command Line Argument leads to a input validation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-88. The product constructs a string for a command to be executed by a separate component in another control sphere, but it does not properly delimit the intended arguments, options, or switches within that command string. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The bug was discovered 03/19/2019. The weakness was shared 04/26/2019 by Guang Gong with Qihoo 360. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2019-9794 since 03/14/2019. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 38 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 172197 (SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for MozillaFirefox (SUSE-SU-2019:0852-1)).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at SecurityFocus (BID 106084†). The entries VDB-127833, VDB-127834, VDB-127835 and VDB-127836 are related to this item. Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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• Web Browser

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• Mozilla

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• Firefox
• Firefox ESR
• Thunderbird

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• open-source

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• Vendor: https://www.mozilla.org/
• Product: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

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