CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-6799

8.8 HIGH Published 2020-03-02 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-03-02
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.1 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-88

Description

Command line arguments could have been injected during Firefox invocation as a shell handler for certain unsupported file types. This required Firefox to be configured as the default handler for a given file type and for a file downloaded to be opened in a third party application that insufficiently sanitized URL data. In that situation, clicking a link in the third party application could have been used to retrieve and execute files whose location was supplied through command line arguments. Note: This issue only affects Windows operating systems and when Firefox is configured as the default handler for non-default filetypes. Other operating systems are unaffected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 73 and Firefox < ESR68.5.

Affected configurations

• mozilla firefox (< 73.0) • mozilla firefox esr (< 68.5.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-88 Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command weakness

References