VulnerabilityAnalyzed
CVE-2024-6607
This vulnerability affects Firefox < 128 and Thunderbird < 128.
HIGH 8.8EPSS 0.56%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.56%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
It was possible to prevent a user from exiting pointerlock when pressing escape and to overlay customValidity notifications from a `<select>` element over certain permission prompts. This could be used to confuse a user into giving a site unintended permissions. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 128 and Thunderbird < 128.
- CVSS 3.1
- 8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.56% probability · 45th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-763
- Affected
- mozilla/firefox · mozilla/thunderbird
- Source
- security@mozilla.org
References
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1694513Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-29/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-32/Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1694513Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-29/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-32/Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.