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    "url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/api/vulnerabilities/1251?format=api",
    "vulnerability_id": "VCID-zubq-2vj3-zycc",
    "summary": "Mozilla developers :Gijs (he/him), Randell Jesup reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 76. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code.",
    "aliases": [
        {
            "alias": "CVE-2020-12411"
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        {
            "reference_url": "https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-12411",
            "reference_id": "",
            "reference_type": "",
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