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MFSA2021-52 Firefox: Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 95 (CVE-2021-43538)

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MFSA2021-52 Firefox: Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 95 (CVE-2021-43538)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
12/07/2021
Created
12/09/2021
Added
12/08/2021
Modified
01/05/2022

Description

By misusing a race in our notification code, an attacker could have forcefully hidden the notification for pages that had received full screen and pointer lock access, which could have been used for spoofing attacks. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 91.4.0, Firefox ESR < 91.4.0, and Firefox < 95.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-95_0

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