CVE-2020-6799

Command line arguments could have been injected during Firefox invocation as a shell handler for certain unsupported file types

published March 2, 2020

CVSS
—
EPSS
2%
Percentile
74.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Command line arguments could have been injected during Firefox invocation as a shell handler for certain unsupported file types. This required Firefox to be configured as the default handler for a given file type and for a file downloaded to be opened in a third party application that insufficiently sanitized URL data. In that situation, clicking a link in the third party application could have been used to retrieve and execute files whose location was supplied through command line arguments. Note: This issue only affects Windows operating systems and when Firefox is configured as the default handler for non-default filetypes. Other operating systems are unaffected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 73 and Firefox < ESR68.5.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01531 · 74.6th percentile
Published
2020-03-02T04:05Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 02 MAR 04:05Z
    Command line arguments could have been injected during Firefox invocation as a shell handler for certain unsupported file types
    cvelistv5