CVE-2024-6607

critical

Description

It was possible to prevent a user from exiting pointerlock when pressing escape and to overlay customValidity notifications from a `&lt;select&gt;` element over certain permission prompts. This could be used to confuse a user into giving a site unintended permissions. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 128.

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-29/

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1694513

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-07-09

Updated: 2024-07-09

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical