CVE-2019-9799 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Firefox versions prior to 66, where insufficient bounds checking during inter-process communication could allow a compromised content process to read memory from the parent process. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this network-exploitable flaw has high confidentiality impact but no integrity or availability impact. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion, and it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 66.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 66CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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