CVE-2019-11708

Publication date 21 June 2019

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Insufficient vetting of parameters passed with the Prompt:Open IPC message between child and parent processes can result in the non-sandboxed parent process opening web content chosen by a compromised child process. When combined with additional vulnerabilities this could result in executing arbitrary code on the user's computer. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 60.7.2, Firefox < 67.0.4, and Thunderbird < 60.7.2.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
firefox	19.04 disco	Fixed 67.0.4+build1-0ubuntu0.19.04.1
	18.10 cosmic	Fixed 67.0.4+build1-0ubuntu0.18.10.1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 67.0.4+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 67.0.4+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
thunderbird	19.04 disco	Fixed 1:60.7.2+build2-0ubuntu0.19.04.1
	18.10 cosmic	Fixed 1:60.7.2+build2-0ubuntu0.18.10.1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 1:60.7.2+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1:60.7.2+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

mdeslaur

scripting is disabled in thunderbird

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	10.0 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H