Name | CVE-2020-15658 |
Description | The code for downloading files did not properly take care of special characters, which led to an attacker being able to cut off the file ending at an earlier position, leading to a different file type being downloaded than shown in the dialog. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 78.1, Firefox < 79, and Thunderbird < 78.1. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
---|---|---|---|
firefox (PTS) | sid | 133.0.3-1 | fixed |
thunderbird (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1:68.9.0-1~deb8u2 | vulnerable |
stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 1:91.10.0-1~deb9u1 | fixed | |
buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 1:115.12.0-1~deb10u1 | fixed | |
bullseye | 1:115.12.0-1~deb11u1 | fixed | |
bullseye (security) | 1:128.5.0esr-1~deb11u1 | fixed | |
bookworm | 1:115.16.0esr-1~deb12u1 | fixed | |
bookworm (security) | 1:128.5.0esr-1~deb12u1 | fixed | |
sid, trixie | 1:128.5.2esr-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
firefox | source | (unstable) | 79.0-1 | |||
thunderbird | source | jessie | (unfixed) | end-of-life | ||
thunderbird | source | (unstable) | (not affected) |
- thunderbird <not-affected> (Only affects Thunderbird 78.x)
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2020-32/#CVE-2020-15658
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2020-33/#CVE-2020-15658