CVE-2021-24000

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Jun 24, 2021
Updated: Aug 3, 2024
Reserved: Jan 13, 2021

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 <input type="file">) 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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
FirefoxMozilla	before 88Affected

References

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

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