CVE-2020-26963

critical

Published — · Modified —

CVSS v3

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CVSS v2

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VIR risk

9.5

Description

Repeated calls to the history and location interfaces could have been used to hang the browser. This was addressed by introducing rate-limiting to these API calls. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 83.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-26963

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-26963.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202011-12

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
arch		fixed	`83.0-1`
sles		affected
debian	sid	fixed	`83.0-1`

References

https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202011-12
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-26963.html
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-26963

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.