Vulnerability CVE-2021-24000


Published: 2021-06-24

Description:
A race condition with requestPointerLock() and setTimeout() could have resulted in a user interacting with one tab when they believed they were on a separate tab. In conjunction with certain elements (such as &lt;input type="file"&gt;) this could have led to an attack where a user was confused about the origin of the webpage and potentially disclosed information they did not intend to. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 88.

Type:

NVD-CWE-Other

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.6/10
2.9/10
4.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
High
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Mozilla -> Firefox 

 References:
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-16/
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1694698

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