CVE-2020-26951
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CVE-2020-26951 is a medium-severity vulnerability rated 6.1/10 on the CVSS scale. A parsing and event loading mismatch in Firefox's SVG code could have allowed load events to fire, even after sanitization. An attacker already capable of exploiting an XSS vulnerability in privileged internal pages could have used this attack to bypass our built-in sanitizer. EPSS estimates a 1.04% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Description
A parsing and event loading mismatch in Firefox's SVG code could have allowed load events to fire, even after sanitization. An attacker already capable of exploiting an XSS vulnerability in privileged internal pages could have used this attack to bypass our built-in sanitizer. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 83, Firefox ESR < 78.5, and Thunderbird < 78.5.
Metrics
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weakness Enumeration
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Mozilla | Firefox | < 83.0 |
| Mozilla | Firefox Esr | < 78.5 |
| Mozilla | Thunderbird | < 78.5 |
References
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1667113Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-50/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-51/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-52/Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1667113Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-50/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-51/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-52/Vendor Advisory
Timeline
- Published
- Last Modified
- Status
- Modified
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