Information disclosure in Firefox ESR and Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2020-26965

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Information disclosure in Firefox ESR and Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2020-26965

Published: November 17, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU48469
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 4.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-26965
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local user to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to the way software keyboards are handled by the Firefox. Some websites have a feature "Show Password" where clicking a button will change a password field into a textbook field, revealing the typed password. If, when using a software keyboard that remembers user input, a user typed their password and used that feature, the type of the password field was changed, resulting in a keyboard layout change and the possibility for the software keyboard to remember the typed password.

A local user leverage this behavior to gain access to passwords, stored by software keyboards.


Affected software

Firefox ESR
Mozilla Firefox
Gentoo Linux
Arch Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
CentOS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS
Ubuntu
openEuler
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions
thunderbird (Red Hat package)
firefox (Red Hat package)
firefox-esr (Debian package)
thunderbird (Debian package)
firefox (Alpine package)
firefox-esr (Alpine package)
thunderbird (Alpine package)
thunderbird (Ubuntu package)
firefox
firefox-debuginfo
firefox-debugsource
mozilla-crashreporter-firefox-debuginfo
firefox (Ubuntu package)
Mozilla Thunderbird
Firefox for Android

How to mitigate CVE-2020-26965

Install updates from vendor's website.

Firefox ESR - update to 78.5.0
Mozilla Firefox - update to 83.0
Mozilla Thunderbird - update to 78.5.0
thunderbird (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 78.5.0-1.el6_10, 78.5.0-1.el7_9, 78.5.0-1.el8_0, 78.5.0-1.el8_1, 78.5.0-1.el8_2, 78.5.0-1.el8_3
firefox (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 78.5.0-1.el6_10, 78.5.0-1.el7_9, 78.5.0-1.el8_0, 78.5.0-1.el8_1, 78.5.0-1.el8_2, 78.5.0-1.el8_3
firefox-esr (Debian package) - update to 78.5.0esr-1~deb10u1
thunderbird (Debian package) - update to 1:78.5.0-1~deb10u1
firefox-esr (Alpine package) - update to 78.5.0-r0
thunderbird (Alpine package) - update to 78.5.1-r0
Firefox for Android - update to 83.0.0
thunderbird (Ubuntu package) - update to 1:78.5.0+build3-0ubuntu0.20.10.1
firefox - update to 79.0-12
firefox-debuginfo - update to 79.0-12
firefox-debugsource - update to 79.0-12
mozilla-crashreporter-firefox-debuginfo - update to 79.0-12
firefox (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 83.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.3, 83.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.2, 83.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1, 83.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.10.1

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