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  "cveId": "CVE-2020-16042",
  "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-16042",
  "summary": "CVE-2020-16042 is fixed in 14 products on 1 platform, first by firefox 84.0\u002Bbuild3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, released December 14, 2020. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: Routine.",
  "title": "firefox: Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and portability.\n\nThis...",
  "description": "Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and portability.\n\nThis update upgrades Firefox to version 78.6.0 ESR.\n\nSecurity Fix(es):\n\n* chromium-browser: Uninitialized Use in V8 (CVE-2020-16042)\n\n* Mozilla: Heap buffer overflow in WebGL (CVE-2020-26971)\n\n* Mozilla: CSS Sanitizer performed incorrect sanitization (CVE-2020-26973)\n\n* Mozilla: Incorrect cast of StyleGenericFlexBasis resulted in a heap use-after-free (CVE-2020-26974)\n\n* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 84 and Firefox ESR 78.6 (CVE-2020-35113)\n\n* Mozilla: Internal network hosts could have been probed by a malicious webpage (CVE-2020-26978)\n\n* Mozilla: The proxy.onRequest API did not catch view-source URLs (CVE-2020-35111)\n\nFor more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.",
  "published": "2020-12-14T16:00:00Z",
  "severity": "Important",
  "cvss": 6.5,
  "epss": 0.01111,
  "epssPercentile": 0.66143,
  "priority": "Routine",
  "priorityTier": 4,
  "exploited": false,
  "vendorExploited": false,
  "disclosed": false,
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