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MFSA2020-16 Firefox: Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 76 (CVE-2020-12393)

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MFSA2020-16 Firefox: Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 76 (CVE-2020-12393)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/05/2020
Created
05/08/2020
Added
05/06/2020
Modified
06/01/2020

Description

The 'Copy as cURL' feature of Devtools' network tab did not properly escape the HTTP method of a request, which can be controlled by the website. If a user used the 'Copy as cURL' feature and pasted the command into a terminal, it could have resulted in command injection and arbitrary command execution. *Note: this issue only affects Firefox on Windows operating systems.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 68.8, Firefox < 76, and Thunderbird < 68.8.0.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-76_0

References

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