Vulnerability · Published Mar 2, 2020 · Assigned by mozilla

CVE-2020-6801

High 8.8

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in Firefox from Mozilla. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.2% (higher than 69% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)8.8High

Exploit odds (30 days)1.2%top 31.0% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 72. 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 < 73.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Mozilla	Firefox	unspecified – before 73

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-05/ x_refsource_MISC
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1601024%2C1601712%2C1604836%2C1606492 x_refsource_MISC
USN-4278-2 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU