Mozilla: >> Firefox >> 83.0 Security Vulnerabilities
When an extension with the proxy permission registered to receive <all_urls>, the proxy.onRequest callback was not triggered for view-source URLs. While web content cannot navigate to such URLs, a user opening View Source could have inadvertently leaked their IP address. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 84, Thunderbird < 78.6, and Firefox ESR < 78.6.
CVSS Score
4.3
EPSS Score
0.003
Published
2021-01-07
If a user downloaded a file lacking an extension on Windows, and then "Open"-ed it from the downloads panel, if there was an executable file in the downloads directory with the same name but with an executable extension (such as .bat or .exe) that executable would have been launched instead. *Note: This issue only affected Windows operating systems. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 84, Thunderbird < 78.6, and Firefox ESR < 78.6.
CVSS Score
8.8
EPSS Score
0.005
Published
2021-01-07
Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 83 and Firefox ESR 78.5. 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 < 84, Thunderbird < 78.6, and Firefox ESR < 78.6.
CVSS Score
8.8
EPSS Score
0.005
Published
2021-01-07
Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 83. 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 < 84.
CVSS Score
8.8
EPSS Score
0.004
Published
2021-01-07
Certain blit values provided by the user were not properly constrained leading to a heap buffer overflow on some video drivers. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 84, Thunderbird < 78.6, and Firefox ESR < 78.6.
CVSS Score
8.8
EPSS Score
0.011
Published
2021-01-07
The lifecycle of IPC Actors allows managed actors to outlive their manager actors; and the former must ensure that they are not attempting to use a dead actor they have a reference to. Such a check was omitted in WebGL, resulting in a use-after-free and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 84.
CVSS Score
9.8
EPSS Score
0.005
Published
2021-01-07
Certain input to the CSS Sanitizer confused it, resulting in incorrect components being removed. This could have been used as a sanitizer bypass. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 84, Thunderbird < 78.6, and Firefox ESR < 78.6.
CVSS Score
8.8
EPSS Score
0.003
Published
2021-01-07
The HTTP/2 protocol does not consider the role of the TCP congestion window in providing information about content length, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain cleartext data by leveraging a web-browser configuration in which third-party cookies are sent, aka a "HEIST" attack.
CVSS Score
5.3
EPSS Score
0.013
Published
2016-09-06
The HTTPS protocol does not consider the role of the TCP congestion window in providing information about content length, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain cleartext data by leveraging a web-browser configuration in which third-party cookies are sent, aka a "HEIST" attack.
CVSS Score
5.3
EPSS Score
0.013
Published
2016-09-06
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in clickstream.js in Y! Toolbar plugin for FireFox 3.1.0.20130813024103 for Mac, and 2.5.9.2013418100420 for Windows, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted URL that is stored by the victim.
CVSS Score
4.3
EPSS Score
0.003
Published
2014-01-26