CVE-2020-6799
HIGHFirefox < 73.0 and Firefox ESR < 68.5.0 - Command Injection via Shell Handler File Type Association
Title source: llmDescription
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
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-05/
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-06/
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