Spoofing via delayed fullscreen notification
Published Dec 22, 2022 · Updated Apr 15, 2025
Fullscreen notification bypass in Mozilla Firefox before 108 allows remote attackers to spoof browser chrome through a malicious webpage. The fullscreen controller waited for both the browser window and web content to enter fullscreen through several IPC state exchanges before showing the warning. A user must interact with attacker-controlled content, and delayed or suppressed warning UI can conceal the toolbar and URL bar and misrepresent the displayed site.
Summary
What happened
Fullscreen notification bypass in Mozilla Firefox before 108 allows remote attackers to spoof browser chrome through a malicious webpage. The fullscreen controller waited for both the browser window and web content to enter fullscreen through several IPC state exchanges before showing the warning. A user must interact with attacker-controlled content, and delayed or suppressed warning UI can conceal the toolbar and URL bar and misrepresent the displayed site.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-46877
- Published
- Dec 22, 2022
- Updated
- Apr 15, 2025
- Vendor
- Mozilla
- Product
- Firefox
- Classifications
- CWE-79, T1204
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Dec 22, 2022CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 15, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=unspecified <108
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