CVE-2020-6799

Summary

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 Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
MozillaFirefoxunspecified < 73affected
MozillaFirefoxunspecified < ESR68.5affected

Weaknesses

  • Arbitrary code execution when opening pdf links from other applications, when Firefox is configured as default pdf reader

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

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