Cross-origin script execution via timed javascript URI
Published Jan 22, 2024 · Updated Jun 20, 2025
Cross-origin scripting in Mozilla Firefox Focus before 122 allows remote attackers to execute scripts in a loaded top-origin page. Focus reuses its single browser window so a timed window.open call can replace the trusted page with a javascript: URI that executes under that page's origin. Exploitation requires the user to open the malicious page and activate its crafted content; the script can read or alter data available to that trusted origin.
Summary
What happened
Cross-origin scripting in Mozilla Firefox Focus before 122 allows remote attackers to execute scripts in a loaded top-origin page. Focus reuses its single browser window so a timed window.open call can replace the trusted page with a javascript: URI that executes under that page's origin. Exploitation requires the user to open the malicious page and activate its crafted content; the script can read or alter data available to that trusted origin.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-0605
- Published
- Jan 22, 2024
- Updated
- Jun 20, 2025
- Vendor
- Mozilla
- Product
- Firefox Focus
- Classifications
- CWE-362, T1189
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jan 22, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jun 20, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=unspecified <122
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