CVE-2020-15670

Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox for Android 79. 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 < 80, Firefox ESR < 78.2, Thunderbird < 78.2, and Firefox for Android < 80.

CVSS v3 8.8 HIGH
CVSS v2.0 6.8 MEDIUM

8.8^/10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.8 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

6.8^/10

CVSS v2.0 : MEDIUM

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

Exploitability : 8.6 / Impact : 6.4

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity MEDIUM

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact PARTIAL

References

Link	Resource
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1651001%2C1653626%2C1656957	Broken Link Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-36/	Release Notes Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-38/	Release Notes Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-39/	Release Notes Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-41/	Release Notes Vendor Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox::::::-::*
	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox::::::android::*
	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird::::::::

History

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Information

Published : 2020-10-01 19:15

Updated : 2023-12-10 13:41

NVD link : CVE-2020-15670

Mitre link : CVE-2020-15670

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2020-15670

JSON object : View

Products Affected

mozilla

firefox_esr
thunderbird
firefox

CWE

CWE-362

Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

CWE-416

Use After Free

CWE-617

Reachable Assertion

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