CVE-2020-6798

critical
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
9.5

Description

If a template tag was used in a select tag, the parser could be confused and allow JavaScript parsing and execution when it should not be allowed. A site that relied on the browser behaving correctly could suffer a cross-site scripting vulnerability as a result. In general, this flaw cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird product because scripting is disabled when reading mail, but is potentially a risk in browser or browser-like contexts. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.5, Firefox < 73, and Firefox < ESR68.5.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-6798

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-6798.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202002-5

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202002-9

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed68.5.0-1
suse slesaffected
debian debiansidfixed73.0-1
debian debianbookwormfixed68.5.0esr-1
debian debianbullseyefixed68.5.0esr-1
debian debianforkyfixed68.5.0esr-1
debian debiantrixiefixed68.5.0esr-1

References

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