CVE-2020-6799

high

Description

Command line arguments could have been injected during Firefox invocation as a shell handler for certain unsupported file types. This required Firefox to be configured as the default handler for a given file type and for a file downloaded to be opened in a third party application that insufficiently sanitized URL data. In that situation, clicking a link in the third party application could have been used to retrieve and execute files whose location was supplied through command line arguments. Note: This issue only affects Windows operating systems and when Firefox is configured as the default handler for non-default filetypes. Other operating systems are unaffected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 73 and Firefox < ESR68.5.

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-06/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-05/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-02

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1606596

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-03-02

Updated: 2022-01-01

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

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

Severity: High