CVE-2020-26965 Information

Description

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 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Reference

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-50/ https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-51/ https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-52/ https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1661617

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

6.5