CVE-2020-26951

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    CVE-2020-26951

    Published: 9 Dec 2020Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: A parsing and event loading mismatch in Firefox's SVG code could have allowed load events to fire, even after sanitization. An attacker already capable of exploiting an XSS vulnerability in privileged internal pages could have used this attack to bypass our built-in sanitizer. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 83, Firefox ESR < 78.5, and Thunderbird < 78.5.

    References: https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-50/, https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-51/, https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-52/, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1667113

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    Events:

    Introduced- None
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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
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    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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