Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-29987 - Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
NONE Summary
After requesting multiple permissions, and closing the first permission panel, subsequent permission panels will be displayed in a different position but still record a click in the default location, making it possible to trick a user into accepting a permission they did not want to. *This bug only affects Firefox on Linux. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 91 and Thunderbird < 91.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1716129
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1716129
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202202-03
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202202-03
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-33/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-33/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-36/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-36/