CVE-2019-17015 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability affecting Mozilla Firefox and Firefox ESR on Windows, specifically versions prior to 72 and 68.4 respectively. It allows a remote attacker to manipulate a pointer offset during content process initialization, leading to a potentially exploitable crash in the parent process. With a CVSS score of 8.8, this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires user interaction, but can result in high impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 72.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 68.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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