Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 71. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 72.
CVSS Details
- CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 8.8
- CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Covered by Rapid7
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine Linux | — | Upgrade librewolfUpgrade firefox | Aug 22, 2024 | Jan 8, 2020 |
| Arch Linux | — | Upgrade to the latest version of Arch Linux | Jul 11, 2025 | Jan 8, 2020 |
| Mfsa2020 01 | — | Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox version 72.0 | Jan 8, 2020 | Jan 7, 2020 |
| Oracle Solaris | — | Upgrade web/browser/firefox to version 78.3.0-11.4.27.0.1.82.0 on Solaris 11.4Upgrade mail/thunderbird to version 78.3.0-11.4.27.0.1.82.0 on Solaris 11.4Upgrade web/data/firefox-bookmarks to version 78.3.0-11.4.27.0.1.82.0 on Solaris 11.4Upgrade mail/thunderbird/plugin/thunderbird-lightning to version 68.12.0-11.4.27.0.1.82.0 on Solaris 11.4 | Jan 19, 2021 | Jan 8, 2020 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade firefox | Jan 10, 2020 | Jan 8, 2020 |
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