vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-6890-1 (CVE-2024-6607): Firefox vulnerabilities

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jul 9, 2024
Added
Jul 11, 2024
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

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.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-firefox
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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