vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-4546-1 (CVE-2020-15676): Firefox vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Sep 24, 2020
Added
Sep 29, 2020
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

Firefox sometimes ran the onload handler for SVG elements that the DOM sanitizer decided to remove, resulting in JavaScript being executed after pasting attacker-controlled data into a contenteditable element. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 81, Thunderbird < 78.3, and Firefox ESR < 78.3.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-firefox
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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