CVE-2020-26972

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

The lifecycle of IPC Actors allows managed actors to outlive their manager actors; and the former must ensure that they are not attempting to use a dead actor they have a reference to. Such a check was omitted in WebGL, resulting in a use-after-free and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 84.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-26972

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202012-25

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed84.0-1
debian debiansidfixed84.0-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.