#VU25854 Spoofing attack in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2020-6810 

 

#VU25854 Spoofing attack in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2020-6810

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


Vulnerability identifier: #VU25854
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-6810
CWE-ID: CWE-451
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Mozilla Firefox
Software vendor:
Mozilla

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.

After a website had entered fullscreen mode, it could have used a previously opened popup to obscure the notification that indicates the browser is in fullscreen mode. Combined with spoofing the browser chrome, this could have led to confusing the user about the current origin of the page and credential theft or other attacks.


Remediation

Install updates from vendor's website.

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