CVE-2020-6800

HIGH

Firefox < 73.0 and Firefox ESR < 68.5.0 - Out-of-bounds Write

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 72 and Firefox ESR 68.4. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. In general, these flaws cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird product because scripting is disabled when reading mail, but are potentially risks in browser or browser-like contexts. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.5, Firefox < 73, and Firefox < ESR68.5.

References (9)

Core 9
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4278-2/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-02
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-10
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4328-1/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4335-1/

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0125
EPSS Percentile 79.6%
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-787
Status published
Products (6)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 19.10
mozilla/firefox < 73.0
mozilla/firefox_esr < 68.5.0
mozilla/thunderbird < 68.5.0
Published Mar 02, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026