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MFSA2020-06 Firefox: Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 68.5 (CVE-2020-6799)

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MFSA2020-06 Firefox: Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 68.5 (CVE-2020-6799)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/02/2020
Created
03/12/2020
Added
03/11/2020
Modified
03/11/2020

Description

Command line arguments could have been injected during Firefox invocation as a shell handler for certain unsupported file types. This required Firefox to be configured as the default handler for a given file type and for a file downloaded to be opened in a third party application that insufficiently sanitized URL data. In that situation, clicking a link in the third party application could have been used to retrieve and execute files whose location was supplied through command line arguments. Note: This issue only affects Windows operating systems and when Firefox is configured as the default handler for non-default filetypes. Other operating systems are unaffected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 73 and Firefox < ESR68.5.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-esr-upgrade-68_5

References

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