828
VMScore

CVE-2020-12411

Published: 09/07/2020 Updated: 21/07/2021
CVSS v2 Base Score: 9.3 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
CVSS v3 Base Score: 8.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 2.8
VMScore: 828
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 76. 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 < 77.

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Vendor Advisories

Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website ...
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2020-20 Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 77 Announced June 2, 2020 Impact high Products Firefox Fixed in Firefox 77 ...
Mozilla developers :Gijs (he/him), Randell Jesup reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 76 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 ...

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