CVE-2020-12396

Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 75. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 76.

CVSS v3.0 9.8 CRITICAL
CVSS v2.0 7.5 HIGH

9.8^/10

CVSS v3.0 : CRITICAL

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

7.5^/10

CVSS v2.0 : HIGH

Vector : AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Exploitability : 10.0 / Impact : 6.4

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity LOW

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact PARTIAL

References

Link	Resource
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-16/	Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1339601%2C1611938%2C1620488%2C1622291%2C1627644	Broken Link Issue Tracking
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-04	Third Party Advisory

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Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Information

Published : 2020-05-26 10:15

Updated : 2022-04-26 12:10

NVD link : CVE-2020-12396

Mitre link : CVE-2020-12396

JSON object : View

CWE

CWE-787

Out-of-bounds Write

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Products Affected

mozilla

firefox

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