Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package firefox-esr  (opens in a new tab)


Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.07% (33rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-FIREFOXESR-601424
  • published19 Aug 2020
  • disclosed10 Aug 2020

Introduced: 10 Aug 2020

CVE-2020-15649  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-434  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:unstable.

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 Debian.

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.