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CVE-2020-15670 Details

Description

Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox for Android 79. 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 < 80, Firefox ESR < 78.2, Thunderbird < 78.2, and Firefox for Android < 80.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:8.8 HIGHVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1651001%2C1653626%2C1656957 CVEBroken LinkIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-36/ CVERelease NotesVendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-38/ CVERelease NotesVendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-39/ CVERelease NotesVendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-41/ CVERelease NotesVendor Advisory

see all 10 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-362Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')[email protected]
CWE-416Use After Free[email protected]
CWE-617Reachable Assertion[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
mozilla firefox
< 80.0

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:-:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
mozilla firefox esr
< 78.2

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
mozilla firefox mobile
< 80.0

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_mobile:*:*:*:*:*:android:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
mozilla thunderbird
< 78.2

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

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QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2020-15670
NVD Published Date:
Oct 1, 2020
NVD Last Modified:
Aug 19, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2020-15670 Details - Not Deferred