CVE-2020-6812: The first time AirPods are connected to an iPhone, they become named after the user's name by default (e.g.

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• canonical ubuntu linux16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux18.04
• canonical ubuntu linux19.10
• mozilla firefoxbefore 74.0
• mozilla firefox esrbefore 68.6.0
• mozilla thunderbirdbefore 68.6.0

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (mozilla). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• Mozilla Firefox

  • unspecified and later · before 74affected
  • unspecified and later · before ESR68.6affected

• Mozilla Firefox ESR

  • unspecified and later · before 68.6affected

• Mozilla Thunderbird

  • unspecified and later · before 68.6affected

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2010-3765Mozilla Firefox 3.5.x through 3.5.14 and 3.6.x through 3.6.11, Thunderbird 3.1.6 before 3.1.6 and 3.0.x before 3.0.10, and SeaMonkey 2.x befKEV
  94Now
• CVE-2019-11708Insufficient vetting of parameters passed with the Prompt:Open IPC message between child and parent processes can result in the non-sandboxeKEV
  87Now
• CVE-2015-4495The PDF reader in Mozilla Firefox before 39.0.3, Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.1.1, and Firefox OS before 2.2 allows remote attackers to bypassKEV
  86Now

Published before and after this one in the same product

• ← EarlierCVE-2020-6810Mar 25, 2020 · After a website had entered fullscreen mode, it could have used a previously opened popup to obscure the notification that indicates the bro
  17Monitor
• ← EarlierCVE-2020-6811Mar 25, 2020 · The 'Copy as cURL' feature of Devtools' network tab did not properly escape the HTTP method of a request, which can be controlled by the web
  36Monitor
• Later →CVE-2020-6813Mar 25, 2020 · When protecting CSS blocks with the nonce feature of Content Security Policy, the @import statement in the CSS block could allow an attacker
  21Monitor

Root cause

The extension requests broader permissions than its function needs and sends the data it collects out for purposes beyond its stated function.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1{2  "permissions": ["tabs", "<all_urls>"],3  "background": { "service_worker": "analytics.js" }4}

1{2  "permissions": ["activeTab"],3  "host_permissions": ["https://yildiz.example/*"]4}

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.