CVE-2019-11696: Mozilla Firefox

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Files with the .JNLP extension used for "Java web start" applications are not treated as executable content for download prompts even though they can be executed if Java is installed on the local system. This could allow users to mistakenly launch an executable binary locally. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 67.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: before 67.0 (fixed in 67.0)

Published 2019-07-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.