UI spoofing via background-tab select dropdown
Published Nov 26, 2024 · Updated Nov 3, 2025
UI spoofing in Firefox before 133, Firefox ESR before 128.5, and Thunderbird before 133 allows remote attackers to mislead users. DOM select-popup handling opens a dropdown from an inactive tab because navigation can race the browsing-context background-state update and pass existing checks. A victim must visit attacker-controlled content and interact with it; the overlay can impersonate content in the foreground tab but cannot alter that tab.
Summary
What happened
UI spoofing in Firefox before 133, Firefox ESR before 128.5, and Thunderbird before 133 allows remote attackers to mislead users. DOM select-popup handling opens a dropdown from an inactive tab because navigation can race the browsing-context background-state update and pass existing checks. A victim must visit attacker-controlled content and interact with it; the overlay can impersonate content in the foreground tab but cannot alter that tab.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-11692
- Published
- Nov 26, 2024
- Updated
- Nov 3, 2025
- Vendor
- Mozilla
- Product
- Firefox
- Classifications
- CWE-290, T1036
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Nov 26, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Nov 3, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=0 <133
- Affected versionversion=unspecified <133
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Public exploit references
- Mozilla Bugzilla poc.html attachmentproof of concept · demonstrated
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