CVE-2020-26969

Firefox ESR and 1 other: Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 82.

CVE-2020-26969 is fixed in 4 products on 2 platforms, first by firefox 83.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.2, released November 16, 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
0.0122
68th percentile

Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 82. 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 < 83.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Windows apps
Mozilla Firefox ESR (en-US) 91.0 Mozilla Firefox ESR (en-US) 91.0 Aug 4, 2021
Linux
firefox · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 83.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 firefox 83.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 Nov 16, 2020
firefox · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 83.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 firefox 83.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Nov 16, 2020
firefox-geckodriver · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 83.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 firefox-geckodriver 83.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 Nov 16, 2020
firefox-geckodriver · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 83.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 firefox-geckodriver 83.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Nov 16, 2020
firefox-mozsymbols · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 83.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 firefox-mozsymbols 83.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 Nov 16, 2020
firefox-mozsymbols · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 83.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 firefox-mozsymbols 83.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Nov 16, 2020

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