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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2020-12420

When trying to connect to a STUN server, a race condition could have caused a use-after-free of a pointer, leading to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash.

HIGH 8.8EPSS 1.86%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.86%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

When trying to connect to a STUN server, a race condition could have caused a use-after-free of a pointer, leading to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 68.10, Firefox < 78, and Thunderbird < 68.10.0.

CVSS 3.1
8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
1.86% probability · 78th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-362, CWE-416
Affected
mozilla/firefox · mozilla/firefox esr · mozilla/thunderbird · canonical/ubuntu linux · opensuse/leap
Source
security@mozilla.org

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.