CVE-2020-12396

Firefox ESR: Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 75.

CVE-2020-12396 is fixed in 4 products on 2 platforms, first by firefox 76.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, released May 6, 2020. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.

HighFixed on 2 platforms
CVSS
9.8
Medium
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0168
77th percentile

Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 75. 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 < 76.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Windows apps
Mozilla Firefox ESR (en-US) 78.0esr Mozilla Firefox ESR (en-US) 78.0esr Jun 25, 2020
Linux
firefox · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 76.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 firefox 76.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 May 6, 2020
firefox · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 76.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 firefox 76.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 May 6, 2020
firefox-geckodriver · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 76.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 firefox-geckodriver 76.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 May 6, 2020
firefox-geckodriver · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 76.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 firefox-geckodriver 76.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 May 6, 2020
firefox-mozsymbols · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 76.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 firefox-mozsymbols 76.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 May 6, 2020
firefox-mozsymbols · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 76.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 firefox-mozsymbols 76.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 May 6, 2020

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