CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-26963
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-12-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Description
Repeated calls to the history and location interfaces could have been used to hang the browser. This was addressed by introducing rate-limiting to these API calls. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 83.
Affected configurations
• mozilla firefox (< 83.0)
References
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1314912 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-50/ Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1314912 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-50/ Vendor Advisory