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CVE-2023-6211 (GCVE-0-2023-6211)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-11-21 14:28 – Updated: 2025-02-13 17:26
VLAI
Summary
If an attacker needed a user to load an insecure http: page and knew that user had enabled HTTPS-only mode, the attacker could have tricked the user into clicking to grant an HTTPS-only exception if they could get the user to participate in a clicking game. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 120.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • Clickjacking to load insecure pages in HTTPS-only mode
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Mozilla Firefox Affected: unspecified , < 120 (custom)
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Credits
Muneaki Nishimura
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