Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-35112 - Unspecified vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
If a user downloaded a file lacking an extension on Windows, and then "Open"-ed it from the downloads panel, if there was an executable file in the downloads directory with the same name but with an executable extension (such as .bat or .exe) that executable would have been launched instead. *Note: This issue only affected Windows operating systems. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 84, Thunderbird < 78.6, and Firefox ESR < 78.6.
Vulnerable Configurations
References
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1661365
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1661365
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-54/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-54/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-55/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-55/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-56/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-56/