CVE-2024-6607 — Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-763 — Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference9 documents7 sources
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
OSV4.7
EPSS
0.9%
top 23.84%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Mozilla FirefoxMozilla Thunderbird
Timeline
PublishedJul 9
Latest updateJul 10

Description

It was possible to prevent a user from exiting pointerlock when pressing escape and to overlay customValidity notifications from a ` ` 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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages5 packages

▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified — 128
▶NVDmozilla/firefox< 128.0
▶CVEListV5mozilla/thunderbirdunspecified — 128
▶NVDmozilla/thunderbird< 128.0
▶Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 128.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

🔴Vulnerability Details

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OSV
firefox vulnerabilities↗2024-07-10
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OSV
CVE-2024-6607: It was possible to prevent a user from exiting pointerlock when pressing escape and to overlay customValidity notifications from a ` ` element over ce↗2024-07-10
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CVEList
Leaving pointerlock by pressing the escape key could be prevented↗2024-07-09
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GHSA
GHSA-gq55-cjrv-p49j: It was possible to prevent a user from exiting pointerlock when pressing escape and to overlay customValidity notifications from a ` ` element over ce↗2024-07-09
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2024-07-10
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Debian
CVE-2024-6607: firefox - It was possible to prevent a user from exiting pointerlock when pressing escape ...↗2024
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Mozilla
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2024-29: CVE-2024-6607↗
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Mozilla
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2024-32: CVE-2024-6607↗
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