CVE-2020-15656

HIGH

Mozilla Firefox < 79.0 - Type Confusion

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

JIT optimizations involving the Javascript arguments object could confuse later optimizations. This risk was already mitigated by various precautions in the code, resulting in this bug rated at only moderate severity. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 78.1, Firefox < 79, and Thunderbird < 78.1.

References (6)

Core 6
Core References
Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1647293
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00025.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4443-1/

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0069
EPSS Percentile 72.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-843
Status published
Products (7)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 20.04
mozilla/firefox < 79.0
mozilla/firefox_esr < 78.1
mozilla/thunderbird < 78.1
opensuse/leap 15.2
Published Aug 10, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026