CVE-2020-12400 Information disclosure in Firefox

Medium 4.7 Published Updated

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.

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Sources

Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2020-12400, DEBIAN-CVE-2020-12400, GHSA-38vr-4p57-8h9g, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-12400.

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