CVE-2020-6801

Firefox ESR: Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 72.

CVE-2020-6801 is fixed in 4 products on 2 platforms, first by firefox 73.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, released February 10, 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
0.0123
69th percentile

Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 72. 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 < 73.

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) 73.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 firefox 73.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Feb 10, 2020
firefox-geckodriver · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 73.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 firefox-geckodriver 73.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Feb 10, 2020
firefox-mozsymbols · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 73.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 firefox-mozsymbols 73.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Feb 10, 2020

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