CVE-2020-12408 — Injection in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-74 — Injection7 documents6 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV4.4
EPSS
0.2%
top 62.36%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Mozilla FirefoxDebian Firefox
Timeline
PublishedJul 9
Latest updateMay 24

Description

When browsing a document hosted on an IP address, an attacker could insert certain characters to flip domain and path information in the address bar. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 77.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages5 packages

▶debiandebian/firefox< firefox 77.0-1 (sid)
▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified — 77
▶NVDmozilla/firefox< 77.0
▶Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 77.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1+2
▶mozillamozilla/firefox

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-hhpx-96r3-vcrp: When browsing a document hosted on an IP address, an attacker could insert certain characters to flip domain and path information in the address bar↗2022-05-24
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OSV
firefox vulnerabilities↗2020-06-04
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OSV
CVE-2020-12408: When browsing a document hosted on an IP address, an attacker could insert certain characters to flip domain and path information in the address bar↗2020-06-02
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2020-06-04
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Debian
CVE-2020-12408: firefox - When browsing a document hosted on an IP address, an attacker could insert certa...↗2020
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Mozilla
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2020-20: CVE-2020-12408↗
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