CVE-2020-15677

high
Published 2020-09-24 ยท Modified 2020-10-01
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.0

Description

By exploiting an Open Redirect vulnerability on a website, an attacker could have spoofed the site displayed in the download file dialog to show the original site (the one suffering from the open redirect) rather than the site the file was actually downloaded from. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 81, Thunderbird < 78.3, and Firefox ESR < 78.3.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
โ€” Affected โ€”
arch Arch Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
โ€” Fixed 81.0-1
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 78.3.0esr-1
sid Fixed 81.0-1
forky Fixed 78.3.0esr-1
bullseye Fixed 78.3.0esr-1
bookworm Fixed 78.3.0esr-1
redhat Red Hat Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
8 Fixed โ€”

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.