CVE-2020-12400 Information disclosure in Firefox
A timing side-channel in Firefox's coordinate conversion allows attackers to potentially recover sensitive data via timing analysis.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2020-12400?
CVE-2020-12400 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 8 Oct 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
When converting coordinates from projective to affine, the modular inversion was not performed in constant time, resulting in a possible timing-based side channel attack. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 80 and Firefox for Android < 80.
Weakness: CWE-203
Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-12400?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox Mobile.
How do I fix CVE-2020-12400?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Is CVE-2020-12400 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-12400 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox
Sources
Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2020-12400, DEBIAN-CVE-2020-12400, GHSA-38vr-4p57-8h9g, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-12400.