Vulnerability · Published Jan 7, 2021 · Assigned by mozilla

CVE-2020-26976

Medium 6.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Firefox from Mozilla. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.6% (higher than 76% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)6.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)1.6%top 23.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

When a HTTPS pages was embedded in a HTTP page, and there was a service worker registered for the former, the service worker could have intercepted the request for the secure page despite the iframe not being a secure context due to the (insecure) framing. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 84.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine:v3.20firefox84.0.1-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-26976
Alpine:v3.21firefox84.0.1-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-26976
Alpine:v3.22firefox84.0.1-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-26976
Alpine:v3.23firefox84.0.1-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-26976
Alpine:v3.20firefox-esr78.7.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-26976
Alpine:v3.21firefox-esr78.7.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-26976
Alpine:v3.22firefox-esr78.7.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-26976
Alpine:v3.23firefox-esr78.7.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-26976
Alpine:v3.21librewolf84.0.1-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-26976
Alpine:v3.22librewolf84.0.1-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-26976
Alpine:v3.23librewolf84.0.1-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-26976
Alpine:v3.24librewolf84.0.1-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-26976
Alpine:v3.20thunderbird78.7.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-26976
Alpine:v3.21thunderbird78.7.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-26976
Alpine:v3.22thunderbird78.7.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-26976
Alpine:v3.23thunderbird78.7.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-26976
Debian:12firefox-esr78.7.0esr-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-26976
Debian:13firefox-esr78.7.0esr-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-26976
Debian:14firefox-esr78.7.0esr-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-26976
Debian:12thunderbird1:78.7.0-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-26976
Debian:13thunderbird1:78.7.0-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-26976
Debian:14thunderbird1:78.7.0-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-26976
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSmozjs78no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-26976

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Mozilla Firefox unspecified – before 84

References