Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package firefox  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-FIREFOX-583639
  • published11 Mar 2020
  • disclosed25 Mar 2020

Introduced: 11 Mar 2020

CVE-2020-6809  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream firefox package and not the firefox package as distributed by Ubuntu.

When a Web Extension had the all-urls permission and made a fetch request with a mode set to 'same-origin', it was possible for the Web Extension to read local files. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 74.