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Vulnerability details: VCID-gwq1-t6je-2qf6
Vulnerability ID VCID-gwq1-t6je-2qf6
Aliases CVE-2019-11704
Summary A flaw in Thunderbird's implementation of iCal causes a heap buffer overflow in icalmemory_strdup_and_dequote when processing certain email messages, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash.
Status Published
Exploitability 2.0
Weighted Severity 8.8
Risk 10.0
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (2)
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write
CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow
System Score Found at
cvssv3 9.8 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2019-11704.json
epss 0.08297 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-11704
epss 0.08297 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-11704
epss 0.08297 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-11704
epss 0.08297 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-11704
epss 0.08297 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-11704
epss 0.08297 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-11704
epss 0.08297 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-11704
epss 0.08297 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-11704
epss 0.08297 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-11704
epss 0.08297 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-11704
epss 0.08297 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-11704
epss 0.08297 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-11704
epss 0.08297 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-11704
cvssv3 9.8 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv2 7.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11704
cvssv3.1 9.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11704
archlinux High https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-980
generic_textual high https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-17
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2019-11704.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-11704
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1553814
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-11703
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-11704
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-11705
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-11706
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-20
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-17/
1720006 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1720006
ASA-201906-10 https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201906-10
AVG-980 https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-980
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2019-11704 Exploit https://github.com/x41sec/advisories/tree/master/X41-2019-001
CVE-2019-11704 Exploit https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb/-/blob/main/exploits/multiple/dos/47002.txt
CVE-2019-11704 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11704
mfsa2019-17 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-17
RHSA-2019:1623 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1623
RHSA-2019:1624 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1624
RHSA-2019:1626 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1626
USN-4028-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4028-1/
Data source Exploit-DB
Date added June 17, 2019
Description Thunderbird ESR < 60.7.XXX - 'icalmemorystrdupanddequote' Heap-Based Buffer Overflow
Ransomware campaign use Unknown
Source publication date June 17, 2019
Exploit type dos
Platform multiple
Source update date June 17, 2019
Source URL https://github.com/x41sec/advisories/tree/master/X41-2019-001
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2019-11704.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

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unchanged

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high

low

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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

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Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11704
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

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high

medium

low

multiple

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none

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11704
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

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high

low

none

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low

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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.91884
EPSS Score 0.08297
Published At Aug. 16, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-31T08:09:59.919805+00:00 Mozilla Importer Import https://github.com/mozilla/foundation-security-advisories/blob/master/announce/2019/mfsa2019-17.yml 37.0.0