CVE-2020-12419 — Use After Free in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-416 — Use After Free17 documents10 sources
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
OSV7.5OSV6.5
EPSS
0.5%
top 35.66%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
5
Mozilla FirefoxMozilla Firefox ESRMozilla Thunderbird+2 more
Timeline
PublishedJul 9
Latest updateMay 24

Description

When processing callbacks that occurred during window flushing in the parent process, the associated window may die; causing a use-after-free condition. This could have led to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 68.10, Firefox < 78, and Thunderbird < 68.10.0.

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 Packages10 packages

▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified — 78
▶NVDmozilla/firefox< 78.0
▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefox_esrunspecified — 68.10
▶NVDmozilla/firefox_esr< 68.10
▶Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 78.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1+2

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

5
GHSA
GHSA-qfjv-j5f5-wv79: When processing callbacks that occurred during window flushing in the parent process, the associated window may die; causing a use-after-free conditio↗2022-05-24
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CVEList
CVE-2020-12419: When processing callbacks that occurred during window flushing in the parent process, the associated window may die; causing a use-after-free conditio↗2020-07-09
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OSV
CVE-2020-12419: When processing callbacks that occurred during window flushing in the parent process, the associated window may die; causing a use-after-free conditio↗2020-07-09
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OSV
thunderbird vulnerabilities↗2020-07-08
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OSV
firefox vulnerabilities↗2020-07-02
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📋Vendor Advisories

10
Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities↗2020-07-08
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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2020-07-02
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Red Hat
Mozilla: Use-after-free in nsGlobalWindowInner↗2020-06-30
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Oracle
Oracle Oracle Financial Services Applications Risk Matrix: Core (Apache CXF) — CVE-2019-12419↗2020-04-15
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Oracle
Oracle Oracle Retail Applications Risk Matrix: Order Broker Foundation (CXF) — CVE-2019-12419↗2020-01-15
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2020-12419 Mozilla: Use-after-free in nsGlobalWindowInner↗2020-07-01
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