CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-15653
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-08-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Description
An iframe sandbox element with the allow-popups flag could be bypassed when using noopener links. This could have led to security issues for websites relying on sandbox configurations that allowed popups and hosted arbitrary content. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 78.1, Firefox < 79, and Thunderbird < 78.1.
Affected configurations
• mozilla firefox (< 79.0)
• mozilla firefox esr (< 78.1)
• mozilla thunderbird (< 78.1)
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 20.04
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00025.html Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1521542 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4443-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-30/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-32/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-33/ Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00025.html Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1521542 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4443-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-30/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-32/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-33/ Vendor Advisory