CVE-2020-6808

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

Description

When a JavaScript URL (javascript:) is evaluated and the result is a string, this string is parsed to create an HTML document, which is then presented. Previously, this document's URL (as reported by the document.location property, for example) was the originating javascript: URL which could lead to spoofing attacks; it is now correctly the URL of the originating document. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 74.

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-2020-6808

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-6808.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202003-8

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed74.0-1
suse slesaffected
debian debiansidfixed74.0-1

References

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