CVE-2020-26966: Mozilla Firefox

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Searching for a single word from the address bar caused an mDNS request to be sent on the local network searching for a hostname consisting of that string; resulting in an information leak. *Note: This issue only affected Windows operating systems. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. 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.