CVE-2020-6815

Firefox ESR: Mozilla developers reported memory safety and script safety bugs present in Firefox 73.

CVE-2020-6815 is fixed in 4 products on 2 platforms, first by firefox 74.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, released March 10, 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
0.0136
71st percentile

Mozilla developers reported memory safety and script safety bugs present in Firefox 73. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption or escalation of privilege and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 74.

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) 74.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 firefox 74.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Mar 10, 2020
firefox · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 74.0+build3-0ubuntu1 firefox 74.0+build3-0ubuntu1 Mar 10, 2020
firefox-geckodriver · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 74.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 firefox-geckodriver 74.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Mar 10, 2020
firefox-geckodriver · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 74.0+build3-0ubuntu1 firefox-geckodriver 74.0+build3-0ubuntu1 Mar 10, 2020
firefox-mozsymbols · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 74.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 firefox-mozsymbols 74.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Mar 10, 2020
firefox-mozsymbols · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 74.0+build3-0ubuntu1 firefox-mozsymbols 74.0+build3-0ubuntu1 Mar 10, 2020

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