Bug 1870408 (CVE-2020-15649) - CVE-2020-15649 Mozilla: Exfiltrating local files through malicious file picker application
Summary: CVE-2020-15649 Mozilla: Exfiltrating local files through malicious file picke...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2020-15649
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1860966
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-08-20 02:19 UTC by Doran Moppert
Modified: 2021-02-16 19:27 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: firefox 68.11
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Last Closed: 2020-08-20 03:15:31 UTC
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Description Doran Moppert 2020-08-20 02:19:34 UTC 
Given an installed malicious file picker application, an attacker was able to steal and upload local files of their choosing, regardless of the actually files picked.


*Note: This issue only affected Firefox for Android. Other operating systems are unaffected.*



External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2020-31/#CVE-2020-15649
Comment 1 Doran Moppert 2020-08-20 02:19:38 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Andrea Palazzo, Pedro Oliveira
Comment 2 Doran Moppert 2020-08-20 02:19:40 UTC 
Statement:

This issue only affected Firefox for Android. Other operating systems are unaffected.
Comment 3 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-08-20 03:15:31 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2020-15649
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