Insufficient UI Warning of Dangerous Operations in Firefox for Android - CVE-2024-11700

 

Insufficient UI Warning of Dangerous Operations in Firefox for Android - CVE-2024-11700

Published: November 26, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU100960
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-11700
CWE-ID: CWE-357
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform tapjacking attack.

The vulnerability exists due to an error in the confirmation dialog. A remote attacker can trick the victim into unknowingly approving the launch of external applications on the device.


Affected software

Firefox for Android
Gentoo Linux
Mozilla Thunderbird
www-client/firefox
mail-client/thunderbird
mail-client/thunderbird-bin
dev-lang/spidermonkey

How to mitigate CVE-2024-11700

Install updates from vendor's website.

Firefox for Android - update to 133.0
Mozilla Thunderbird - update to 133.0
www-client/firefox - update to 104
mail-client/thunderbird - update to 128.9.0
mail-client/thunderbird-bin - update to 128.9.0
dev-lang/spidermonkey - update to 128.9.0

External References

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