Improper Restriction of Rendered UI Layers or Frames in Firefox for Android and Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2024-5689
Published: June 11, 2024
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform phishing attack.
The vulnerability exists due user confusion when taking screenshots with Firefox. In addition to detecting when a user was taking a screenshot (XXX), a website was able to overlay the "My Shots" button that appeared, and direct the user to a replica Firefox Screenshots page that could be used for phishing.
Affected software
Mozilla Firefox
Gentoo Linux
Ubuntu
openEuler
Fedora
www-client/firefox
firefox
firefox (Ubuntu package)
firefox-debuginfo
firefox-debugsource
How to mitigate CVE-2024-5689
Mozilla Firefox - update to 127.0
www-client/firefox - update to 104
firefox - update to 127.0-1.fc40
firefox (Ubuntu package) - update to 127.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
firefox - update to 128.10.1-1
firefox-debuginfo - update to 128.10.1-1
firefox-debugsource - update to 128.10.1-1