CVE-2024-6607

Leaving pointerlock by pressing the escape key could be prevented

High8.8EPSS 0.56%

Published: 9 Jul 2024
Updated: 30 Oct 2025
Reserved: 9 Jul 2024
Assigned by: mozilla

Description

It was possible to prevent a user from exiting pointerlock when pressing escape and to overlay customValidity notifications from a `<select>` element over certain permission prompts. This could be used to confuse a user into giving a site unintended permissions. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 128 and Thunderbird < 128.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2024-6607, by who scored it
Scored by	CVSS	Score	Vector
CISA-ADPADP (enrichment)	3.1	High8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVDNVD · Analyzed	3.1	High8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days): 0.56% · top 53% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
CISA SSVC: Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.

Weakness

CWE-763 Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-763 and its CVEs

Affected products

Mozilla · Firefox
- affected unspecified – < 128
Mozilla · Thunderbird
- affected unspecified – < 128

References (3)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1694513 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-29/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-32/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

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Record last updated 30 Oct 2025, 16:14 UTC.