CVE-2020-6798

critical
Published 2020-02-17 ยท Modified 2020-02-24
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.5

Description

If a template tag was used in a select tag, the parser could be confused and allow JavaScript parsing and execution when it should not be allowed. A site that relied on the browser behaving correctly could suffer a cross-site scripting vulnerability as a result. In general, this flaw cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird product because scripting is disabled when reading mail, but is potentially a risk in browser or browser-like contexts. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.5, Firefox < 73, and Firefox < ESR68.5.

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 68.5.0-1
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 68.5.0esr-1
sid Fixed 73.0-1
forky Fixed 68.5.0esr-1
bullseye Fixed 68.5.0esr-1
bookworm Fixed 68.5.0esr-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.