VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2020-12396
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.
CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 1.68%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.68%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
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 3.1
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.68% probability · 76th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-787
- Affected
- mozilla/firefox
- Source
- security@mozilla.org
References
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1339601%2C1611938%2C1620488%2C1622291%2C1627644Broken Link, Issue Tracking
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-04Third Party Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-16/Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1339601%2C1611938%2C1620488%2C1622291%2C1627644Broken Link, Issue Tracking
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-04Third Party Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-16/Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.