CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2020-37190 — Top Password Firefox Password Recovery security vulnerability

High CVSS 7.5

Top Password Firefox Password Recovery 2.8 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the application by overflowing input fields. Attackers can trigger the vulnerability by inserting 5000 characters into the User Name or Registration Code input fields.

Severity
High
CVSS
7.5 (3.1)
Published
2026-02-11
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
browser
Weaknesses
CWE-120

Affected products

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Matched remediation archetype

Buffer bounds, memory safety, and memory corruption

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Check exposure

  • Identify affected native-code versions, build flags, architectures, parsers, codecs, drivers, and input paths in all shipped artifacts.
  • Determine whether untrusted data reaches the affected routine and the process privilege, sandbox, and network exposure.
  • Confirm statically linked, vendored, firmware, and platform-provided copies, not only package-manager records.

Remediate safely

  • Apply the maintained upstream correction or replace the affected component, then rebuild every dependent artifact from clean inputs.
  • Adopt bounds-checked interfaces, validated sizes and integer conversions, clear ownership, and memory-safe components where practical.
  • Enable supported compiler and runtime hardening and add sanitized tests and fuzz regression seeds derived from non-weaponized fixtures.

Authoritative sources

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