CVE-2020-26951

A parsing and event loading mismatch in Firefox's SVG code could have allowed load events to fire, even after sanitization

published December 9, 2020

CVSS
—
EPSS
1%
Percentile
64.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A parsing and event loading mismatch in Firefox's SVG code could have allowed load events to fire, even after sanitization. An attacker already capable of exploiting an XSS vulnerability in privileged internal pages could have used this attack to bypass our built-in sanitizer. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 83, Firefox ESR < 78.5, and Thunderbird < 78.5.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01051 · 64.0th percentile
Published
2020-12-09T00:19Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 09 DEC 00:19Z
    A parsing and event loading mismatch in Firefox's SVG code could have allowed load events to fire, even after sanitization
    cvelistv5