CVE-2020-6819

critical KEV
Published 2021-11-03 · Modified 2021-11-03
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
10.0

Description

Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird contain a race condition vulnerability when running the nsDocShell destructor under certain conditions. The race condition creates a use-after-free vulnerability, causing unspecified impacts.

CISA KEV

Vendor
Mozilla
Product
Firefox and Thunderbird
Due date
2022-05-03

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
99%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cisa-kev — https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-6819

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-6819

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-6819.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202004-6

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202004-12

Exploits

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed68.7.0-1
suse slesaffected
debian debiansidfixed74.0.1-1
debian debianbookwormfixed68.6.1esr-1
debian debianbullseyefixed68.6.1esr-1
debian debianforkyfixed68.6.1esr-1
debian debiantrixiefixed68.6.1esr-1

References

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