CVE-2020-12406Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity in Mozilla Firefox

Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
OSV7.5OSV4.4
EPSS
0.4%
top 42.27%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedJul 9
Latest updateMay 24

Description

Mozilla Developer Iain Ireland discovered a missing type check during unboxed objects removal, resulting in a crash. We presume that with enough effort that it could be exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.9.0, Firefox < 77, and Firefox ESR < 68.9.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages9 packages

CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified77
NVDmozilla/firefox< 77.0
CVEListV5mozilla/firefox_esrunspecified68.9
NVDmozilla/firefox_esr< 68.9.0
Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 77.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1+2

Also affects: Ubuntu Linux 16.04, 18.04, 19.10, 20.04

🔴Vulnerability Details

5
GHSA
GHSA-cf83-h775-f5f6: Mozilla Developer Iain Ireland discovered a missing type check during unboxed objects removal, resulting in a crash2022-05-24
OSV
CVE-2020-12406: Mozilla Developer Iain Ireland discovered a missing type check during unboxed objects removal, resulting in a crash2020-07-09
CVEList
CVE-2020-12406: Mozilla Developer Iain Ireland discovered a missing type check during unboxed objects removal, resulting in a crash2020-07-09
OSV
thunderbird vulnerabilities2020-07-08
OSV
firefox vulnerabilities2020-06-04

📋Vendor Advisories

7
Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities2020-07-08
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities2020-06-04
Red Hat
Mozilla: JavaScript Type confusion with NativeTypes2020-06-02
Debian
CVE-2020-12406: firefox - Mozilla Developer Iain Ireland discovered a missing type check during unboxed ob...2020
Mozilla
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2020-22: CVE-2020-12406

💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2020-12406 Mozilla: JavaScript Type confusion with NativeTypes2020-06-03
CVE-2020-12406 — Mozilla Firefox vulnerability | cvebase