CVE-2020-26963

medium

Description

Repeated calls to the history and location interfaces could have been used to hang the browser. This was addressed by introducing rate-limiting to these API calls. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 83.

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-50/

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1314912

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-12-09

Updated: 2020-12-10

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L