Mozilla Firefox up to 79.x Media Error information disclosure
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A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox up to 79.x (Web Browser). It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Media Error Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:
When trying to load a non-video in an audio/video context the exact status code (200, 302, 404, 500, 412, 403, etc.) was disclosed via the MediaError Message. This level of information leakage is inconsistent with the standardized onerror/onsuccess disclosure and can lead to inferring login status to services or device discovery on a local network among other attacks. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 80 and Firefox for Android < 80.
The weakness was released 10/01/2020 as Bug 1450853 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is shared at bugzilla.mozilla.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2020-15666 since 07/10/2020. Access to the local network is required for this attack to succeed. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592 for this issue.
Upgrading to version 80.0 eliminates this vulnerability.
Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at 162163, 162162 and 162160.
Product
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CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.0VulDB Meta Temp Score: 4.9
VulDB Base Score: 3.5
VulDB Temp Score: 3.4
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NVD Base Score: 6.5
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Exploiting
Class: Information disclosureCWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
ATT&CK: T1592
Local: No
Remote: Partially
Availability: 🔍
Status: Not defined
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Threat Intelligence
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Countermeasures
Recommended: UpgradeStatus: 🔍
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Upgrade: Firefox 80.0
Timeline
07/10/2020 🔍10/01/2020 🔍
10/02/2020 🔍
11/15/2020 🔍
Sources
Vendor: mozilla.orgProduct: mozilla.org
Advisory: Bug 1450853
Status: Not defined
CVE: CVE-2020-15666 (🔍)
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Entry
Created: 10/02/2020 07:43Updated: 11/15/2020 13:16
Changes: 10/02/2020 07:43 (42), 10/02/2020 07:48 (4), 10/05/2020 08:09 (1), 11/14/2020 09:35 (4), 11/15/2020 13:16 (14)
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