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CVE-2020-15683

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-10-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-416

Description

Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 81 and Firefox ESR 78.3. 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 ESR < 78.4, Firefox < 82, and Thunderbird < 78.4.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.0, 10.0
• Mozilla Firefox: before 82.0 — fixed in 82.0
• Mozilla Firefox ESR: before 78.4 — fixed in 78.4
• Mozilla Thunderbird: before 78.4 — fixed in 78.4
• openSUSE Leap: 15.1, 15.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Mozilla Firefox 82.0; Mozilla Firefox ESR 78.4; Mozilla Thunderbird 78.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00057.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00062.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00074.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00077.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1576843%2C1656987%2C1660954%2C1662760%2C1663439%2C1666140
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00027.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202010-08
• https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4780
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-45/
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-46/
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-47/
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00057.html

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