CVE-2020-26979 (GCVE-0-2020-26979)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-01-07 13:51 – Updated: 2024-08-04 16:03
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CWE
- When entering an address in the address or search bars, a website could have redirected the user before they were navigated to the intended url
Assigner
References
2 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1… | x_refsource_MISC |
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