CVE-2020-15669 Information

Description

When aborting an operation such as a fetch an abort signal may be deleted while alerting the objects to be notified. This results in a use-after-free and we presume that with enough effort it could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR 68.12 and Thunderbird 68.12.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1656957 https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-37/ https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-40/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

8.8