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MFSA2020-54 Firefox: Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 84 (CVE-2020-26979)

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MFSA2020-54 Firefox: Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 84 (CVE-2020-26979)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
12/15/2020
Created
12/16/2020
Added
12/16/2020
Modified
01/14/2021

Description

When a user typed a URL in the address bar or the search bar and quickly hit the enter key, a website could sometimes capture that event and then redirect the user before navigation occurred to the desired, entered address. To construct a convincing spoof the attacker would have had to guess what the user was typing, perhaps by suggesting it. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 84.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-84_0

References

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