CVE-2019-17017

Mozilla: Type Confusion in XPCVariant.cpp

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

8.8

CVSS 3.1

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Published · January 7, 2020

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

Due to a missing case handling object types, a type confusion vulnerability could occur, resulting in a crash. We presume that with enough effort that it could be exploited to run arbitrary code. 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 · 8.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-843 · Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')