Description
Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 72. 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. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 73.
References (3)
Core 3
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-05/
Broken Link, Issue Tracking x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1601024%2C1601712%2C1604836%2C1606492
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4278-2/
Scores
CVSS v3
8.8
EPSS
0.0056
EPSS Percentile
68.3%
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 (2)
canonical/ubuntu_linux
16.04
mozilla/firefox
< 73.0
Published
Mar 02, 2020
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026