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01 Record

CVE-2020-12421

When performing add-on updates, certificate chains terminating in non-built-in-roots were rejected (even if they were legitimately added by an administrator.) This could have caused add-ons to become

UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mozilla
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector

02 Description

When performing add-on updates, certificate chains terminating in non-built-in-roots were rejected (even if they were legitimately added by an administrator.) This could have caused add-ons to become

03 Exploitation and scoring

Exploitation
Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
SSVC decision
Not assessed by CISA
EPSS probability
1.84% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile
Equal to or higher than the score of 78.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score
6.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
NVD CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD analysis status
Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
Red Hat severity
Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

04 Metadata

Published
2020-07-09 14:39Z6 YR AGO
Last updated
2024-08-04 11:56Z2 YR AGO
Reserved
2020-04-28
Assigning CNA
mozilla
Record state
PUBLISHED
Severity
Not rated by the issuing CNA
CNA CVSS vector
Not published by the issuing CNA
Weaknesses
  • CWE-295Improper Certificate ValidationBase
  • CWE-296Improper Following of a Certificate's Chain of TrustBase
Data version
5.1
Document digest
33e3e37db329b83503653ea09d9980a66d10ae296aea02bbdcee1fef5f154c43

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
MozillaFirefox ESR< 68.10—
MozillaFirefox< 78—
MozillaThunderbird< 68.10.0—

06 References

07 Fixed in

Debian 12

  • firefox-esr
    Fixed in 68.10.0esr-1
  • thunderbird
    Fixed in 1:68.10.0-1

Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

Debian 13

  • firefox-esr
    Fixed in 68.10.0esr-1
  • thunderbird
    Fixed in 1:68.10.0-1

Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

Debian 14

  • firefox-esr
    Fixed in 68.10.0esr-1
  • thunderbird
    Fixed in 1:68.10.0-1

Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

  • firefox
    Fixed in 78.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
  • thunderbird
    Fixed in 1:68.10.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

  • firefox
    Fixed in 78.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
  • mozjs38
    No fix yet
  • mozjs52
    No fix yet
  • thunderbird
    Fixed in 1:68.10.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

  • firefox
    Fixed in 78.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
  • mozjs52
    No fix yet
  • mozjs68
    No fix yet
  • thunderbird
    Fixed in 1:68.10.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.