CVE-2020-6805Use After Free in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-416Use After Free17 documents9 sources
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
OSV6.5
EPSS
0.8%
top 25.97%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedMar 25
Latest updateMay 24

Description

When removing data about an origin whose tab was recently closed, a use-after-free could occur in the Quota manager, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.6, Firefox < 74, Firefox < ESR68.6, and Firefox ESR < 68.6.

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/firefoxunspecified74+1
NVDmozilla/firefox< 74.0
CVEListV5mozilla/firefox_esrunspecified68.6
NVDmozilla/firefox_esr< 68.6.0
Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 74.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1+1

Also affects: Ubuntu Linux 16.04, 18.04, 19.10

🔴Vulnerability Details

6
GHSA
GHSA-x53c-7qg8-2x3c: When removing data about an origin whose tab was recently closed, a use-after-free could occur in the Quota manager, resulting in a potentially exploi2022-05-24
OSV
thunderbird vulnerabilities2020-04-21
OSV
thunderbird vulnerabilities2020-04-13
CVEList
CVE-2020-6805: When removing data about an origin whose tab was recently closed, a use-after-free could occur in the Quota manager, resulting in a potentially exploi2020-03-25
OSV
CVE-2020-6805: When removing data about an origin whose tab was recently closed, a use-after-free could occur in the Quota manager, resulting in a potentially exploi2020-03-25

📋Vendor Advisories

8
Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities2020-04-21
Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities2020-04-13
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities2020-03-11
Red Hat
Mozilla: Use-after-free when removing data about origins2020-03-10
Debian
CVE-2020-6805: firefox - When removing data about an origin whose tab was recently closed, a use-after-fr...2020

💬Community

2
Bugzilla
AddressSanitizer: heap-use-after-free /home/fuzzer/firefox/src/dist/include/mozilla/ipc/ProtocolUtils.h:229:31 in Id2020-04-01
Bugzilla
CVE-2020-6805 Mozilla: Use-after-free when removing data about origins2020-03-10
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