CVE-2020-15648 — UI Misrepresentation / Clickjacking in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-1021 — UI Misrepresentation / ClickjackingCWE-451 — User Interface (UI) Misrepresentation of Critical Information8 documents7 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.3%
top 45.28%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Mozilla FirefoxMozilla ThunderbirdDebian Firefox
Timeline
PublishedAug 10
Latest updateMay 24

Description

Using object or embed tags, it was possible to frame other websites, even if they disallowed framing using the X-Frame-Options header. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78 and Firefox < 78.0.2.

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 Packages8 packages

▶debiandebian/firefox< firefox 78.0.2-1 (sid)
▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified — 78.0.2
▶NVDmozilla/firefox< 78.0.2
▶CVEListV5mozilla/thunderbirdunspecified — 78

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-jrmg-2w74-rwc9: Using object or embed tags, it was possible to frame other websites, even if they disallowed framing using the X-Frame-Options header↗2022-05-24
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OSV
CVE-2020-15648: Using object or embed tags, it was possible to frame other websites, even if they disallowed framing using the X-Frame-Options header↗2020-08-10
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📋Vendor Advisories

4
Red Hat
Mozilla: X-Frame-Options bypass using object or embed tags↗2020-07-08
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Debian
CVE-2020-15648: firefox - Using object or embed tags, it was possible to frame other websites, even if the...↗2020
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Mozilla
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2020-28: CVE-2020-15648↗
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Mozilla
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2020-29: CVE-2020-15648↗
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2020-15648 Mozilla: X-Frame-Options bypass using object or embed tags↗2020-08-26
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