An earlier fix for an Inter-process Communication (IPC) vulnerability, CVE-2011-3079, added authentication to communication between IPC endpoints and server parents during IPC process creation. This authentication is insufficient for channels created after the IPC process is started, leading to the authentication not being correctly applied to later channels. This could allow for a sandbox escape through IPC channels due to lack of message validation in the listener process. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 60.5, Firefox ESR < 60.5, and Firefox < 65.
CVSS Details
- CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 10
- CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Covered by Rapid7
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine Linux | — | Upgrade firefox-esr | Mar 28, 2019 | Feb 5, 2019 |
| Arch Linux | — | Upgrade to the latest version of Arch Linux | Jul 11, 2025 | Feb 5, 2019 |
| Centos_linux | — | Upgrade thunderbird-debuginfoUpgrade thunderbirdUpgrade firefox-debuginfoUpgrade firefox | Feb 5, 2019 | Jan 29, 2019 |
| Debian | — | Upgrade thunderbirdUpgrade firefox-esr | Jan 31, 2019 | Jan 29, 2019 |
| Freebsd | — | Upgrade seamonkeyUpgrade thunderbirdUpgrade firefoxUpgrade libxulUpgrade linux-seamonkeyUpgrade linux-thunderbirdUpgrade firefox-esrUpgrade linux-firefoxUpgrade waterfox | Jan 30, 2019 | Jan 29, 2019 |
| Gentoo Linux | — | Upgrade mail-client/thunderbird.Upgrade www-client/firefox-bin.Upgrade www-client/firefox.Upgrade mail-client/thunderbird-bin. | Mar 11, 2019 | Feb 5, 2019 |
| Mfsa2019 01 | — | Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox version 65.0 | Jan 30, 2019 | Jan 29, 2019 |
| Mfsa2019 02 | — | Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox ESR version 60.5 | Jan 30, 2019 | Jan 29, 2019 |
| Mozilla Thunderbird | — | Upgrade to Mozilla Thunderbird version 60.5 | Jan 30, 2019 | Jan 29, 2019 |
| Oracle Solaris | — | Upgrade mail/thunderbird to version 60.6.1-11.4.9.0.1.2.0 on Solaris 11.4Upgrade web/data/firefox-bookmarks to version 60.5.0-11.4.6.0.1.4.0 on Solaris 11.4Upgrade mail/thunderbird/plugin/thunderbird-lightning to version 60.6.1-11.4.9.0.1.2.0 on Solaris 11.4Upgrade web/browser/firefox to version 60.5.0-11.4.6.0.1.4.0 on Solaris 11.4 | Feb 20, 2019 | Feb 5, 2019 |
| Oracle_linux | — | Upgrade thunderbirdUpgrade firefox | Jan 31, 2019 | Jan 29, 2019 |
| Redhat_linux | — | Upgrade thunderbirdUpgrade firefoxUpgrade thunderbird-debuginfoUpgrade firefox-debuginfo | Jan 31, 2019 | Jan 30, 2019 |
| Suse | — | Upgrade mozillafirefox-translations-commonUpgrade mozilla-nss-develUpgrade mozillafirefox-translations-otherUpgrade mozillathunderbird-translations-commonUpgrade libfreebl3-32bitUpgrade mozillafirefox-develUpgrade MozillaThunderbird-buildsymbolsUpgrade libsoftokn3-hmacUpgrade mozilla-nssUpgrade mozilla-nss-32bitUpgrade mozillathunderbird-translations-otherUpgrade mozilla-nss-sysinit-32bitUpgrade mozilla-nss-certs-32bitUpgrade mozilla-nss-certsUpgrade libfreebl3Upgrade mozillafirefox-branding-sleUpgrade libsoftokn3-32bitUpgrade mozillafirefox-branding-upstreamUpgrade mozillafirefoxUpgrade mozilla-nss-toolsUpgrade libsoftokn3Upgrade libfreebl3-hmac-32bitUpgrade libsoftokn3-hmac-32bitUpgrade mozilla-nss-sysinitUpgrade mozillafirefox-buildsymbolsUpgrade libfreebl3-hmacUpgrade mozillathunderbird | Feb 5, 2019 | Jan 29, 2019 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade thunderbirdUpgrade firefox | Feb 5, 2019 | Jan 29, 2019 |
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