Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-15669 - Use After Free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox ESR

047910
CVSS 8.8 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
mozilla
CWE-416

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Mozilla
562

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)