CVE-2020-12423

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Jul 9, 2020
Updated: Aug 4, 2024
Reserved: Apr 28, 2020

Description

When the Windows DLL "webauthn.dll" was missing from the Operating System, and a malicious one was placed in a folder in the user's %PATH%, Firefox may have loaded the DLL, leading to arbitrary code execution. *Note: This issue only affects the Windows operating system; other operating systems are unaffected.* This vulnerability affects Firefox < 78.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
FirefoxMozilla	before 78Affected

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-24/
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1642400
openSUSE-SU-2020:0983vendor-advisory
openSUSE-SU-2020:1017vendor-advisory

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