CVE-2020-6800 — Out-of-bounds Write in Mozilla Firefox
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
OSV6.5
EPSS
1.3%
top 20.64%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMar 2
Latest updateMay 24
Description
Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 72 and Firefox ESR 68.4. 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. In general, these flaws cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird product because scripting is disabled when reading mail, but are potentially risks in browser or browser-like contexts. This vulnerability affects Thund…
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 Packages7 packages
Also affects: Ubuntu Linux 16.04, 18.04, 19.10
🔴Vulnerability Details
5GHSA▶
GHSA-qjg6-3pj8-cqgj: Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 72 and Firefox ESR 68↗2022-05-24
CVEList▶
CVE-2020-6800: Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 72 and Firefox ESR 68↗2020-03-02
OSV▶
CVE-2020-6800: Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 72 and Firefox ESR 68↗2020-03-02
📋Vendor Advisories
9💬Community
1Bugzilla
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