CVE-2020-15657

high

Description

Firefox could be made to load attacker-supplied DLL files from the installation directory. This required an attacker that is already capable of placing files in the installation directory. *Note: This issue only affected Windows operating systems. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 78.1, Firefox < 79, and Thunderbird < 78.1.

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-33/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-32/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-30/

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1644954

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00025.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-08-10

Updated: 2020-08-14

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High