Buffer overflow in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2020-12395
Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 75 and Firefox ESR 68.7. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been e…
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
EPSS: 0.023 (81.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions unspecified
- Mozilla Firefox Esr — versions unspecified
- Mozilla Firefox_esr
- Mozilla Thunderbird — versions unspecified
- Canonical Ubuntu_linux — versions 16.04, 18.04, 19.10
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking, Broken Link)
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- security@mozilla.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
- security@mozilla.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2020-12395?
- CVE-2020-12395 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2020-05-26.
- How severe is CVE-2020-12395?
- Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.