CVE-2020-26951

medium

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.

References

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1667113

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-50/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-51/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-52/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-12-09

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium