# 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.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.7 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N`)
- **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:** Yes
- **Published:** 8 Oct 2020
- **Updated:** 4 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** ALPINE-CVE-2020-12400, DEBIAN-CVE-2020-12400, GHSA-38vr-4p57-8h9g, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-12400

## 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 (Observable Discrepancy)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-12400?

It affects 2 products.


Products: 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

- [CVE-2019-11708](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-11708/): Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Sandbox Escape (critical 10.0, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2010-3765](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2010-3765/): Mozilla Multiple Products Remote Code Execution (critical 9.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2022-26486](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-26486/): Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free (critical 9.6, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2022-26485](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-26485/): Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2019-11707](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-11707/): Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Type Confusion (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2020-12400 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-12400 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Mozilla Firefox. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-12400/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-12400/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-12400
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-12400
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-12400

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-12400/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.