UI spoofing via obscured fullscreen notification
Published Jun 2, 2023 · Updated Jan 9, 2025
Fullscreen notification spoofing in Mozilla browsers and Thunderbird allows remote attackers to mislead users through a crafted website. The DOM focus path fails to leave fullscreen when a same-named popup is raised after repeated fullscreen requests, allowing the popup to cover the notification. User interaction with the site is required; Firefox, Firefox for Android, and Focus before 112 and Firefox ESR and Thunderbird before 102.10 are affected, with spoofing as the bounded consequence.
Summary
What happened
Fullscreen notification spoofing in Mozilla browsers and Thunderbird allows remote attackers to mislead users through a crafted website. The DOM focus path fails to leave fullscreen when a same-named popup is raised after repeated fullscreen requests, allowing the popup to cover the notification. User interaction with the site is required; Firefox, Firefox for Android, and Focus before 112 and Firefox ESR and Thunderbird before 102.10 are affected, with spoofing as the bounded consequence.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-29533
- Published
- Jun 2, 2023
- Updated
- Jan 9, 2025
- Vendor
- Mozilla
- Product
- Firefox
- Classifications
- T1036
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jun 2, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jan 9, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=unspecified <112
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- Bug 1814597 testcase.htmlproof of concept · demonstrated
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