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Ubuntu: USN-4443-1 (CVE-2020-15653): Firefox vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jul 29, 2020
Added
Aug 5, 2020
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

An iframe sandbox element with the allow-popups flag could be bypassed when using noopener links. This could have led to security issues for websites relying on sandbox configurations that allowed popups and hosted arbitrary content. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 78.1, Firefox < 79, and Thunderbird < 78.1.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-firefox
Title
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