Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2020-6813

 

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2020-6813

Published: March 10, 2020 / Updated: March 10, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU25858
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-6813
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass certain security restrictions.

When protecting CSS blocks with the nonce feature of Content Security Policy, the @import statement in the CSS block could allow an attacker to inject arbitrary styles, bypassing the intent of the Content Security Policy.


Affected software

Mozilla Firefox
Arch Linux
firefox (Ubuntu package)
firefox (Alpine package)
Cloud App Management V2018

How to mitigate CVE-2020-6813

Install updates from vendor's website.

Mozilla Firefox - update to 74.0
firefox (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 74.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, 74.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, 74.0+build3-0ubuntu0.19.10.1
firefox (Alpine package) - update to 74.0-r0
Cloud App Management V2018 - update to 2020.1.0

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