Notification permission spoofing via principal misclassification
Published Nov 11, 2025 · Updated Apr 13, 2026
Same-origin policy bypass in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird allows remote attackers to request notification permission through an embedded frame. RequestPermission treats a same-site, cross-origin iframe as a first-party principal, so it opens a prompt that should be blocked. A user must visit attacker-controlled content and act on the notification prompt; on Android, the prompt can display the top-level site's origin instead of the requesting frame's origin.
Summary
What happened
Same-origin policy bypass in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird allows remote attackers to request notification permission through an embedded frame. RequestPermission treats a same-site, cross-origin iframe as a first-party principal, so it opens a prompt that should be blocked. A user must visit attacker-controlled content and act on the notification prompt; on Android, the prompt can display the top-level site's origin instead of the requesting frame's origin.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-13017
- Published
- Nov 11, 2025
- Updated
- Apr 13, 2026
- Vendor
- Unknown vendor
- Product
- Unknown product
- Classifications
- CWE-942, T1036
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Nov 11, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 13, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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