CVE-2020-12419
Mozilla: Use-after-free in nsGlobalWindowInner
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · June 30, 2020
Updated · November 22, 2025
Description
The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:
When processing callbacks that occurred during window flushing in the parent process, the associated window may die; causing a use-after-free condition. This could have led to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE-416 · Use After Free