Insufficient UI Warning of Dangerous Operations in Firefox for Android - CVE-2024-4766

 

Insufficient UI Warning of Dangerous Operations in Firefox for Android - CVE-2024-4766

Published: May 15, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU89552
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-4766
CWE-ID: CWE-357
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to the way fullscreen notifications are handled by the browser. A remote attacker can obscure the fullscreen notification and perform spoofing attack.


Affected software

Firefox for Android
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
www-client/firefox
firefox

How to mitigate CVE-2024-4766

Install updates from vendor's website.

Firefox for Android - update to 126.0
www-client/firefox - update to 104
firefox - addressed in versions 126.0-5.fc38, 126.0-5.fc39, 126.0-5.fc40

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