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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2020-26969

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.

HIGH 8.8EPSS 1.22%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.22%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 82. 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 < 83.

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
1.22% probability · 67th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-787
Affected
mozilla/firefox
Source
security@mozilla.org

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