CVE-2024-6607

Leaving pointerlock by pressing the escape key could be prevented

High · published July 9, 2024

CVSS v3.1
8.8
EPSS
1%
Percentile
46.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

It was possible to prevent a user from exiting pointerlock when pressing escape and to overlay customValidity notifications from a `&lt;select&gt;` 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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00563 · 46.1th percentile
Published
2024-07-09T14:25Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 09 JUL 14:25Z
    Leaving pointerlock by pressing the escape key could be prevented
    cvelistv5