CVE-2020-15650 Affecting firefox-esr package, versions <68.11.0-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.06% (27th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE311-FIREFOXESR-596414
  • published30 Jul 2020
  • disclosed10 Aug 2020

Introduced: 30 Jul 2020

CVE-2020-15650  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.11 firefox-esr to version 68.11.0-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream firefox-esr package and not the firefox-esr package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.11 relevant fixed versions and status.

Given an installed malicious file picker application, an attacker was able to overwrite local files and thus overwrite Firefox settings (but not access the previous profile). Note: This issue only affected Firefox for Android. Other operating systems are unaffected.. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 68.11.

CVSS Scores

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