Insufficient UI Warning of Dangerous Operations in Firefox for Android and Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2024-6608

 

Insufficient UI Warning of Dangerous Operations in Firefox for Android and Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2024-6608

Published: July 21, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU94621
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-6608
CWE-ID: CWE-357
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Mozilla
Affected software:
Firefox for Android
Mozilla Firefox

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to an error when handling cursor and pointerlock. It was possible to move the cursor using pointerlock from an iframe. This allowed moving the cursor outside of the viewport and the Firefox window.


How to mitigate CVE-2024-6608

Install updates from vendor's website.

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