CVE-2020-15674

firefox: memory safety bugs showing evidence of memory corruption leading to run arbitrary code

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

8.8

CVSS 3.1

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Published · October 5, 2020

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 80. 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 < 81.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 8.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-119 · Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer