CVE-2024-1550
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-02-20 13:21
Modified
2024-08-01 18:40
Severity ?
Summary
A malicious website could have used a combination of exiting fullscreen mode and `requestPointerLock` to cause the user's mouse to be re-positioned unexpectedly, which could have led to user confusion and inadvertently granting permissions they did not intend to grant. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 123, Firefox ESR < 115.8, and Thunderbird < 115.8.
References
security@mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1860065
security@mozilla.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00000.html
security@mozilla.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00001.html
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-05/
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-06/
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-07/
Impacted products
MozillaFirefox
MozillaFirefox ESR
MozillaThunderbird
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