CVE-2020-12426

Firefox ESR: Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 77.

CVE-2020-12426 is fixed in 10 products on 2 platforms, first by Mozilla Firefox ESR (en-US) 78.0esr, released June 25, 2020. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.

HighFixed on 2 platforms
CVSS
8.8
Medium
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0161
76th percentile

Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 77. 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 < 78.

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) 78.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 firefox 78.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Jun 30, 2020
firefox · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 78.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 firefox 78.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Jun 30, 2020
firefox-geckodriver · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 78.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 firefox-geckodriver 78.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Jun 30, 2020
firefox-geckodriver · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 78.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 firefox-geckodriver 78.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Jun 30, 2020
firefox-mozsymbols · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 78.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 firefox-mozsymbols 78.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Jun 30, 2020
firefox-mozsymbols · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 78.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 firefox-mozsymbols 78.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Jun 30, 2020
thunderbird · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1:78.8.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 thunderbird 1:78.8.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Apr 22, 2021
thunderbird · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 1:78.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 thunderbird 1:78.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Jan 25, 2021
thunderbird-gnome-support · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1:78.8.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 thunderbird-gnome-support 1:78.8.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Apr 22, 2021
thunderbird-gnome-support · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 1:78.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 thunderbird-gnome-support 1:78.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Jan 25, 2021
thunderbird-mozsymbols · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1:78.8.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 thunderbird-mozsymbols 1:78.8.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Apr 22, 2021
thunderbird-mozsymbols · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 1:78.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 thunderbird-mozsymbols 1:78.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Jan 25, 2021
xul-ext-calendar-timezones · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1:78.8.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 xul-ext-calendar-timezones 1:78.8.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Apr 22, 2021
xul-ext-calendar-timezones · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 1:78.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 xul-ext-calendar-timezones 1:78.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Jan 25, 2021
xul-ext-gdata-provider · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1:78.8.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 xul-ext-gdata-provider 1:78.8.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Apr 22, 2021
xul-ext-gdata-provider · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 1:78.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 xul-ext-gdata-provider 1:78.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Jan 25, 2021
xul-ext-lightning · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1:78.8.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 xul-ext-lightning 1:78.8.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Apr 22, 2021
xul-ext-lightning · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 1:78.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 xul-ext-lightning 1:78.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Jan 25, 2021

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