CVE-2019-17015
Mozilla: Memory corruption in parent process during new content process initialization on Windows
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · January 7, 2020
Updated · November 22, 2025
Description
During the initialization of a new content process, a pointer offset can be manipulated leading to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash in the parent process. Note: this issue only occurs on Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected.. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 68.4 and Firefox < 72.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write