Location-bar spoofing via fake website toolbar
Published Jun 13, 2024 · Updated Mar 14, 2025
UI spoofing in Mozilla Firefox for iOS before 127 allows remote attackers to misrepresent a site's address through a malicious webpage. A crafted page visually imitates the location bar with a fake toolbar, causing page content to be mistaken for trusted browser chrome. Exploitation requires a user to visit the page and trust the displayed URL; the documented consequence is address deception, not code execution or data access.
Summary
What happened
UI spoofing in Mozilla Firefox for iOS before 127 allows remote attackers to misrepresent a site's address through a malicious webpage. A crafted page visually imitates the location bar with a fake toolbar, causing page content to be mistaken for trusted browser chrome. Exploitation requires a user to visit the page and trust the displayed URL; the documented consequence is address deception, not code execution or data access.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-38313
- Published
- Jun 13, 2024
- Updated
- Mar 14, 2025
- Vendor
- Mozilla
- Product
- Firefox for iOS
- Classifications
- CWE-451, T1036
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jun 13, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Mar 14, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=unspecified <127
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