Universal cross-site scripting in Firefox ESR and Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2020-26956

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Universal cross-site scripting in Firefox ESR and Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2020-26956

Published: November 17, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU48462
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-26956
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. In some cases, removing HTML elements during sanitization would keep existing SVG event handlers and therefore lead to XSS.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.


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-2020-26956

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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