CVE-2020-26979
high
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
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VIR risk
8.0
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-26979
Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-26979.html
Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202012-25
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| arch | fixed | 84.0-1 | |
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | sid | fixed | 84.0-1 |
References
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.