CVE-2019-9812

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

Given a compromised sandboxed content process due to a separate vulnerability, it is possible to escape that sandbox by loading accounts.firefox.com in that process and forcing a log-in to a malicious Firefox Sync account. Preference settings that disable the sandbox are then synchronized to the local machine and the compromised browser would restart without the sandbox if a crash is triggered. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 60.9, Firefox ESR < 68.1, and Firefox < 69.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-9812

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-9812.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201909-2

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed69.0-1
suse slesaffected
debian debiansidfixed69.0-1
debian debianbookwormfixed68.1.0esr-1
debian debianbullseyefixed68.1.0esr-1
debian debianforkyfixed68.1.0esr-1
debian debiantrixiefixed68.1.0esr-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.