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CVE-2020-15673

Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 80 and Firefox ESR 78.2. Some of these bugs showed evi

Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 80 and Firefox ESR 78.2. 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 < 81, Thunderbird < 78.3, and Firefox ESR < 78.3.

HIGH · CVSS 8.8 EPSS 0.00869
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  • CVSS base score ≥ 7.0
Sigma rules1 YARA rules0
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Weakness Classification

CWE-416Use After Free
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Affected Products & Versions

5
mozilla firefox< 81.0
mozilla firefox esr< 78.3
mozilla thunderbird< 78.3
debian linuxall versions
opensuse leapall versions
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Sigma Hunt Rules

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Exact rules name this CVE ID. Product rules name an affected product in their title. Related rules cover techniques used by actors who exploited this CVE. Showing the most relevant matches; the complete related set is on the full drill-down.
producthighSQLite Firefox Profile Data DB Access
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Scoring & Timeline

8.8
HIGH · CVSS v3.1 · security@mozilla.org
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Attack Vector
Network Adjacent Local Physical
Attack Complexity
Low High
Privileges Required
None Low High
User Interaction
None Required
Scope
Unchanged Changed
Confidentiality
None Low High
Integrity
None Low High
Availability
None Low High
Published to NVD01 Oct 2020 · 07:15 PM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Vendor Advisories

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suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:10600-1
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:10601-1
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2020:1785-1
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2020:1780-1
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References & Sources

9
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00074.htmlMailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00077.htmlMailing ListThird Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1648493%2C1660800Broken LinkIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00020.htmlMailing ListThird Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202010-02Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4770Third Party Advisory
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