Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type 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
0.07% (34th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE311-FIREFOXESR-596415
  • published30 Jul 2020
  • disclosed10 Aug 2020

Introduced: 30 Jul 2020

CVE-2020-15649  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-434  (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 steal and upload local files of their choosing, regardless of the actually files picked. Note: This issue only affected Firefox for Android. Other operating systems are unaffected.. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 68.11.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1