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CVE-2020-6820 — Mozilla Firefox And Thunderbird Use-After-Free Vulnerability

provenance: imported · CVE: CVE-2020-6820 · CWE: CWE-362

CVE-2020-6820: Mozilla Firefox And Thunderbird Use-After-Free Vulnerability

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)

Vendor / project Mozilla
Product Firefox and Thunderbird
Date added 2021-11-03
Due date 2022-05-03
Ransomware campaign use Unknown

Description

Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird contain a race condition vulnerability when handling a ReadableStream under certain conditions. The race condition creates a use-after-free vulnerability, causing unspecified impacts.

Required action (CISA)

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Notes

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-6820

Weakness behind it

CISA records this vulnerability as an instance of CWE-362. From there the chain continues into CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques, all inside this corpus.

References

  • NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-6820
  • KEV catalog: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog

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