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CVE-2020-12423

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-12423 is a DLL hijacking vulnerability affecting Mozilla Firefox on Windows operating systems. It allowed arbitrary code execution if a malicious webauthn.dll was placed in a user's %PATH% when the legitimate DLL was missing. Rated 7.8 HIGH (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), this vulnerability requires local access and user interaction for exploitation, leading to high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion for this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 78.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 78CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.41%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
34.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0041 is in the 33rd percentile among its peer group of 11,621 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

mozillavendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2020-12423Moderate

Mozilla: DLL Hijacking due to searching %PATH% for a library

Jun 30, 2020

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00027.html
Broken Link
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00049.html
Broken Link
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
mozilla.org / security/advisories/mfsa2020-24
Vendor Advisory