CVE-2020-15683

Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 82 and Firefox ESR 78.4

Severity Score

9.8

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 81 and Firefox ESR 78.3. 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 ESR < 78.4, Firefox < 82, and Thunderbird < 78.4.

Los desarrolladores de Mozilla y los miembros de la comunidad informaron bugs de seguridad de la memoria presentes en Firefox versión 81 y Firefox ESR versión 78.3. Algunos de estos bugs mostraron evidencia de corrupción de la memoria y suponemos que con suficiente esfuerzo algunos de ellos podrían haber sido explotados para ejecutar código arbitrario. Esta vulnerabilidad afecta a Firefox ESR versiones anteriores a 78,4, Firefox versiones anteriores a 82 y Thunderbird versiones anteriores a 78,4

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

Partial

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2020-07-10 CVE Reserved
2020-10-22 CVE Published
2024-08-04 CVE Updated
2024-09-12 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-120: Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
CWE-416: Use After Free
CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write

CAPEC

References (13)

URL	Tag	Source
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00027.html	Mailing List

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00057.html	2022-04-28
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00062.html	2022-04-28
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00074.html	2022-04-28
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00077.html	2022-04-28
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1576843%2C1656987%2C1660954%2C1662760%2C1663439%2C1666140	2022-04-28
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202010-08	2022-04-28
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4780	2022-04-28
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-45	2022-04-28
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-46	2022-04-28
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-47	2022-04-28
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-15683	2020-11-05
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1889932	2020-11-05

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Mozilla Search vendor "Mozilla"		Firefox Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox"				< 82.0 Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox" and version " < 82.0"		-		Affected
Mozilla Search vendor "Mozilla"		Firefox Esr Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox Esr"				< 78.4 Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox Esr" and version " < 78.4"		-		Affected
Mozilla Search vendor "Mozilla"		Thunderbird Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Thunderbird"				< 78.4 Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Thunderbird" and version " < 78.4"		-		Affected
Debian Search vendor "Debian"		Debian Linux Search vendor "Debian" for product "Debian Linux"				9.0 Search vendor "Debian" for product "Debian Linux" and version "9.0"		-		Affected
Debian Search vendor "Debian"		Debian Linux Search vendor "Debian" for product "Debian Linux"				10.0 Search vendor "Debian" for product "Debian Linux" and version "10.0"		-		Affected
Opensuse Search vendor "Opensuse"		Leap Search vendor "Opensuse" for product "Leap"				15.1 Search vendor "Opensuse" for product "Leap" and version "15.1"		-		Affected
Opensuse Search vendor "Opensuse"		Leap Search vendor "Opensuse" for product "Leap"				15.2 Search vendor "Opensuse" for product "Leap" and version "15.2"		-		Affected