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high 8.3

CVE-2019-9818 json

A race condition is present in the crash generation server used to generate data for the crash reporter.

published 7y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2019-19180

cvss
8.3
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 61%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A race condition is present in the crash generation server used to generate data for the crash reporter. This issue can lead to a use-after-free in the main process, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash and a sandbox escape. *Note: this vulnerability only affects Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 60.7, Firefox < 67, and Firefox ESR < 60.7.

Patch / fix

  • Mozilla Thunderbird 60.7
  • Mozilla Firefox 67
  • Mozilla Firefox ESR 60.7
  • MozillaThunderbird SLE Workstation Extension 15 SP1, SLE Workstation Extension 15 60.7.0-3.33.2
  • MozillaFirefox SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP1, SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 60.7.0-3.40.6
  • MozillaFirefox SLES for SAP 12 SP4, SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES for SAP 12 SP2 +13 more 60.7.0-109.72.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2019:1458-1SUSE-SU-2019:1405-1SUSE-SU-2019:1388-1

  • firefox-esr openSUSE Tumbleweed 128.5.1-1.1
  • MozillaFirefox openSUSE Tumbleweed 92.0-1.2
  • MozillaThunderbird openSUSE Tumbleweed 91.1.1-1.1
  • MozillaThunderbird Package Hub 12 60.7.2-85.1
  • MozillaFirefox openSUSE Leap 15.0 60.7.0-lp150.3.54.5

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1openSUSE-SU-2024:10600-1openSUSE-SU-2024:10601-1openSUSE-SU-2019:1664-1openSUSE-SU-2019:1534-1

  • firefox-esr Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22, Alpine 3.21 +12 more 60.7.0-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2019-9818

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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red hat product security vex CVE-2019-9818 updated cvss 7.5

Mozilla: Use-after-free in crash generation server

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 firefox, thunderbird Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 firefox, thunderbird Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 firefox, thunderbird
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.95% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 61% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 8.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.1 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • Mozilla Thunderbird
  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Mozilla Firefox ESR

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization
  • CWE-416 Use After Free

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.