CVEs-PoC/2019/CVE-2019-9801.md

CVE-2019-9801

Description

Firefox will accept any registered Program ID as an external protocol handler and offer to launch this local application when given a matching URL on Windows operating systems. This should only happen if the program has specifically registered itself as a "URL Handler" in the Windows registry. Note: This issue only affects Windows operating systems. Other operating systems are unaffected.. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 60.6, Firefox ESR < 60.6, and Firefox < 66.

POC

Reference

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1527717
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1527717

Github

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