Improper Cross-boundary Removal of Sensitive Data Affecting mozilla package, versions [,78.5)(78.5,83.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.15% (52nd percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications
  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2379295
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed9 Dec 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Dec 2020

CVE-2020-26965  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-212  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 78.5, 83.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Cross-boundary Removal of Sensitive Data. Some websites have a feature "Show Password" where clicking a button will change a password field into a textbook field, revealing the typed password. If, when using a software keyboard that remembers user input, a user typed their password and used that feature, the type of the password field was changed, resulting in a keyboard layout change and the possibility for the software keyboard to remember the typed password. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 83, Firefox ESR < 78.5, and Thunderbird < 78.5.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1