CVE-2020-12416: Mozilla Firefox

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A VideoStreamEncoder may have been freed in a race condition with VideoBroadcaster::AddOrUpdateSink, resulting in a use-after-free, memory corruption, and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 78.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: before 78.0 (fixed in 78.0)
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.1 only; version 15.2 only

Published 2020-07-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.