github - ghsa-9mvw-9c9q-7cmm

ghsa-9mvw-9c9q-7cmm

Vulnerability from github

Published

2021-12-09 00:00

Modified

2022-03-17 00:06

Severity ?

4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Details

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.

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  "id": "GHSA-9mvw-9c9q-7cmm",
  "modified": "2022-03-17T00:06:35Z",
  "published": "2021-12-09T00:00:18Z",
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cve-2021-43538

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2021-12-08 21:20

Modified

2024-08-04 04:03

Severity ?

Summary

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-53/	x_refsource_MISC
	https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-54/	x_refsource_MISC
	https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-52/	x_refsource_MISC
	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1739091	x_refsource_MISC
	https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5026	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/12/msg00030.html	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
	https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5034	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00001.html	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202202-03	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO
	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-14	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

▼

Mozilla

Thunderbird

Version: unspecified < 91.4.0

	Mozilla	Firefox ESR	Version: unspecified < 91.4.0
	Mozilla	Firefox	Version: unspecified < 95

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