When a user typed a URL in the address bar or the search bar and quickly hit the enter key, a website could sometimes capture that event and then redirect the user before navigation occurred to the desired, entered address. To construct a convincing spoof the attacker would have had to guess what the user was typing, perhaps by suggesting it. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 84.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - When a user typed a URL in the address bar or the search bar and quickly hit the enter key, a website     could sometimes capture that event and then redirect the user before navigation occurred to the desired,     entered address. To construct a convincing spoof the attacker would have had to guess what the user was     typing, perhaps by suggesting it. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 84. (CVE-2020-26979)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4671-1 advisory.

    Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked into opening a specially     crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, obtain     sensitive information, bypass the CSS sanitizer, bypass security restrictions, spoof the URL bar, or     execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-16042, CVE-2020-26971, CVE-2020-26972, CVE-2020-26793, CVE-2020-26974,     CVE-2020-26976, CVE-2020-26978, CVE-2020-26979, CVE-2020-35113, CVE-2020-35114)

    It was discovered that the proxy.onRequest API did not catch view-source URLs. If a user were tricked in     to installing an extension with the proxy permission and opening View Source, an attacker could     potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2020-35111)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Firefox installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 84.0. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2020-54 advisory. Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Firefox installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 84.0. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2020-54 advisory. Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
245258	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2020-26979	Nessus	Misc.	medium
144299	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Firefox vulnerabilities (USN-4671-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
144283	Mozilla Firefox < 84.0	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	critical
144282	Mozilla Firefox < 84.0	Nessus	Windows	critical

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