Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting mozilla package, versions [,83.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (43rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378208
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed9 Dec 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Dec 2020

CVE-2020-26963  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 83.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). Repeated calls to the history and location interfaces could have been used to hang the browser. This was addressed by introducing rate-limiting to these API calls. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 83.

CVSS Scores

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