Medium severity6.1NVD Advisory· Published Jan 7, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2020-26979
CVE-2020-26979
Description
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.
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Affected products
5cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <84.0
- (no CPE)range: <84
- (no CPE)range: unspecified
- osv-coords2 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/MozillaFirefox&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/opensuse/firefox-esr&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
< 92.0-1.2+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: < 92.0-1.2
- (no CPE)range: < 128.5.1-1.1
Patches
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References
2- bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cginvdExploitIssue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
- www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-54/nvdVendor Advisory
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