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MFSA2020-45 Firefox: Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 82 (CVE-2020-15680)

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MFSA2020-45 Firefox: Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 82 (CVE-2020-15680)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
10/20/2020
Created
10/22/2020
Added
10/21/2020
Modified
11/02/2020

Description

If a valid external protocol handler was referenced in an image tag, the resulting broken image size could be distinguished from a broken image size of a non-existent protocol handler. This allowed an attacker to successfully probe whether an external protocol handler was registered. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 82.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-82_0

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