Information disclosure in Firefox ESR and Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2020-15652

 

Information disclosure in Firefox ESR and Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2020-15652

Published: July 29, 2020 / Updated: July 30, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU32897
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-15652
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to excessive data output in stack trace for JavaScript errors. A remote attacker can obtain result of a cross-origin redirect.


Affected software

Firefox ESR
Mozilla Firefox
Gentoo Linux
Debian Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
CentOS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS
Slackware Linux
Opensuse
Ubuntu
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions
firefox (Red Hat package)
firefox-esr (Alpine package)
mozjs68 (Alpine package)
firefox (Alpine package)
firefox-esr (Debian package)
thunderbird (Red Hat package)
thunderbird (Debian package)
firefox (Ubuntu package)
Mozilla Thunderbird

How to mitigate CVE-2020-15652

Install updates from vendor's website.

Firefox ESR - addressed in versions 68.11.0, 78.1.0
Mozilla Firefox - update to 79.0
Mozilla Thunderbird - addressed in versions 68.11.0, 78.0.1
firefox (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 68.11.0-1.el6_10, 68.11.0-1.el7_8, 68.11.0-1.el8_0, 68.11.0-1.el8_1, 68.11.0-1.el8_2
firefox-esr (Alpine package) - update to 68.11.0-r0
mozjs68 (Alpine package) - update to 68.11.0-r0
firefox (Alpine package) - update to 79.0-r0
firefox-esr (Debian package) - update to 68.11.0esr-1~deb10u1
thunderbird (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 68.11.0-1.el6_10, 68.11.0-1.el7_8, 68.11.0-1.el8_0, 68.11.0-1.el8_1, 68.11.0-1.el8_2
thunderbird (Debian package) - update to 1:68.11.0-1~deb10u1
firefox (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 79.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.2, 79.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, 79.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

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