Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-15669 - Use After Free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox ESR
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH 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
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1656957
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1656957
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-37/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-37/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-40/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-40/