Mozilla Firefox < 81.0

high Nessus Plugin ID 140732

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Synopsis

A web browser installed on the remote Windows host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

The version of Firefox installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 81.0. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2020-42 advisory.

- When recursing through graphical layers while scrolling, an iterator may have become invalid, resulting in a potential use-after-free. This occurs because the function <code>APZCTreeManager::ComputeClippedCompositionBounds</code> did not follow iterator invalidation rules.
(CVE-2020-15678)

- When processing surfaces, the lifetime may outlive a persistent buffer leading to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2020-15675)

- By exploiting an Open Redirect vulnerability on a website, an attacker could have spoofed the site displayed in the download file dialog to show the original site (the one suffering from the open redirect) rather than the site the file was actually downloaded from. (CVE-2020-15677)

- Firefox sometimes ran the onload handler for SVG elements that the DOM sanitizer decided to remove, resulting in JavaScript being executed after pasting attacker-controlled data into a contenteditable element. (CVE-2020-15676)

- Mozilla developer Jason Kratzer reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 80 and Firefox ESR 78.2.
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. (CVE-2020-15673)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox version 81.0 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 140732

File Name: mozilla_firefox_81_0.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 9/22/2020

Updated: 11/18/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-15678

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Mozilla Firefox

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/22/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/22/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-15673, CVE-2020-15674, CVE-2020-15675, CVE-2020-15676, CVE-2020-15677, CVE-2020-15678

IAVA: 2020-A-0435-S

MFSA: 2020-42

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