CVE-2020-12421 Information

Description

When performing add-on updates certificate chains terminating in non-built-in-roots were rejected (even if they were legitimately added by an administrator.) This could have caused add-ons to become out-of-date silently without notification to the user. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR 68.10 Firefox 78 and Thunderbird 68.10.0.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00023.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00026.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00027.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00049.html https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1308251 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-09 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-10 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4421-1/ https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-24/ https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-25/ https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-26/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

6.5