CVE-2020-26968

HighCVSS 8.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 82 and Firefox ESR 78.4. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 83, Firefox ESR < 78.5, and Thunderbird < 78.5.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 8.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-787

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
Mozilla	Firefox	< 83
Mozilla	Firefox ESR	< 78.5
Mozilla	Thunderbird	< 78.5

References

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1551615%2C1607762%2C1656697%2C1657739%2C1660236%2C1667912%2C1671479%2C1671923Broken Link
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-50/Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-51/Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-52/Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1551615%2C1607762%2C1656697%2C1657739%2C1660236%2C1667912%2C1671479%2C1671923Broken Link
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-50/Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-51/Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-52/Vendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: Dec 9, 2020
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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