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CVE-2020-12395

Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 76 and Firefox ESR 68.8

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Severity

Critical

Red Hat Product Security

9.8

CVSS 3.1

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Published · May 5, 2020

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

Memory safety flaws were found in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird. Memory corruption that an attacker could leverage with enough effort, could allow arbitrary code to run. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 9.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-120 · Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')