Zero-day vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
CVE-2019-11708

This vulnerability was used along with CVE-2019-11707 in a targeted attack against Conbase.

Vulnerability details

Advisory: SB2019062002 - Security restrictions bypass in Mozilla Firefox and Firefox ESR

Vulnerable component: Mozilla Firefox

CVE-ID: CVE-2019-11708

CVSSv3 score: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:H/RL:O/RC:C

CWE-ID: CWE-264 - Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

Description:

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass sandbox restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient vetting of parameters passed with the Prompt:Open IPC message between child and parent processes. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted web page that can make the non-sandboxed parent process open web content chosen by a compromised child process.

An attacker can combine this behavior along with another vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system with privileges on the current user. 

Note, this vulnerability is being exploited in the wild along with SB2019061805 (CVE-2019-11707)

Public Exploits: