CVE-2020-26966

medium

Description

Searching for a single word from the address bar caused an mDNS request to be sent on the local network searching for a hostname consisting of that string; resulting in an information leak. *Note: This issue only affected Windows operating systems. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 83, Firefox ESR < 78.5, and Thunderbird < 78.5.

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-52/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-51/

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

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1663571

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:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

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

Severity: Medium