CVE-2020-6812 Information disclosure in Firefox

What is CVE-2020-6812?

CVE-2020-6812 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 25 Mar 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The first time AirPods are connected to an iPhone, they become named after the user's name by default (e.g. Jane Doe's AirPods.) Websites with camera or microphone permission are able to enumerate device names, disclosing the user's name. To resolve this issue, Firefox added a special case that renames devices containing the substring 'AirPods' to simply 'AirPods'. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.6, Firefox < 74, Firefox < ESR68.6, and Firefox ESR < 68.6.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-6812?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox Esr, Mozilla Thunderbird.

How do I fix CVE-2020-6812?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2020-6812 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-6812 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2020-6812, GHSA-vh23-x25h-2wfm, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-6812.