CVE-2020-26965: Mozilla Firefox

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: before 83.0 (fixed in 83.0)
• Mozilla Firefox ESR: before 78.5 (fixed in 78.5)
• Mozilla Thunderbird: before 78.5 (fixed in 78.5)

Published 2020-12-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.