Security Advisory

CVE-2020-6808

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2020-03-25 21:13:32
Last updated 2024-08-04 09:11:05
Assigner mozilla
State PUBLISHED

Description

When a JavaScript URL (javascript:) is evaluated and the result is a string, this string is parsed to create an HTML document, which is then presented. Previously, this documents URL (as reported by the document.location property, for example) was the originating javascript: URL which could lead to spoofing attacks; it is now correctly the URL of the originating document. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 74.