Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-6809  

A security issue has been found in Firefox before 74 where, when a Web Extension had the all-urls permission and made a fetch request with a mode set to 'same-origin', it was possible for the Web Extension to read local files.

Severity Medium

Remote Yes

Type Access restriction bypass

Description

A security issue has been found in Firefox before 74 where, when a Web Extension had the all-urls permission and made a fetch request with a mode set to 'same-origin', it was possible for the Web Extension to read local files.

AVG-1112 firefox 73.0.1-1 74.0-1 Critical Fixed

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2020-08/#CVE-2020-6809
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1420296