When a user typed a URL in the address bar or the search bar and quickly hit the enter key, a website could sometimes capture that event and then redirect the user before navigation occurred to the desired, entered address. To construct a convincing spoof the attacker would have had to guess what the user was typing, perhaps by suggesting it. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 84.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2021-01-07T13:51:22

Updated: 2024-08-04T16:03:23.189Z

Reserved: 2020-10-12T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-26979

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2021-01-07T14:15:12.377

Modified: 2021-01-12T16:38:37.330

Link: CVE-2020-26979

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