CVE-2019-17018 Information disclosure in Firefox

What is CVE-2019-17018?

CVE-2019-17018 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 8 Jan 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

When in Private Browsing Mode on Windows 10, the Windows keyboard may retain word suggestions to improve the accuracy of the keyboard. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 72.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-17018?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mozilla Firefox.

How do I fix CVE-2019-17018?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-17018 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2019-17018 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-17018 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox

• CVE-2019-11708 Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Sandbox Escape Exploited Critical 10.0
• CVE-2010-3765 Mozilla Multiple Products Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-26486 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2022-26485 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2019-11707 Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Type Confusion Exploited High 8.8

All Mozilla Firefox vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-pq8c-jr49-74hj, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-17018.