CVE-2024-6607
Leaving pointerlock by pressing the escape key could be prevented
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 8.8 High
- Published
- Jul 9, 2024
- Updated
- Oct 30, 2025
- Reserved
- Jul 9, 2024
Description
It was possible to prevent a user from exiting pointerlock when pressing escape and to overlay customValidity notifications from a `<select>` element over certain permission prompts. This could be used to confuse a user into giving a site unintended permissions. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 128 and Thunderbird < 128.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 8.8 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | CISA-ADP |
Weaknesses
- CWE-763 Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
FirefoxMozilla |
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ThunderbirdMozilla |
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References
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