CVE-2020-6799

HIGH

Firefox < 73.0 and Firefox ESR < 68.5.0 - Command Injection via Shell Handler File Type Association

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Command line arguments could have been injected during Firefox invocation as a shell handler for certain unsupported file types. This required Firefox to be configured as the default handler for a given file type and for a file downloaded to be opened in a third party application that insufficiently sanitized URL data. In that situation, clicking a link in the third party application could have been used to retrieve and execute files whose location was supplied through command line arguments. Note: This issue only affects Windows operating systems and when Firefox is configured as the default handler for non-default filetypes. Other operating systems are unaffected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 73 and Firefox < ESR68.5.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1606596
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-02

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0149
EPSS Percentile 70.7%
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-88
Status published
Products (2)
mozilla/firefox < 73.0
mozilla/firefox_esr < 68.5.0
Published Mar 02, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026