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CVE-2019-17015

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FAUCET Score

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.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 72.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 68.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.81%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
76.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0181 is in the 75th percentile among its peer group of 14,875 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

mozillavendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-17015Important

Mozilla: Memory corruption in parent process during new content process initialization on Windows

Jan 7, 2020

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00029.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00043.html
packetstormsecurity.com / files/155912/Slackware-Security-Advisory-mozilla-thunderbird-Updates.html
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
Permissions Required
seclists.org / bugtraq/2020/Jan/18
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
mozilla.org / security/advisories/mfsa2020-01
Vendor Advisory
mozilla.org / security/advisories/mfsa2020-02
Vendor Advisory