Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts Affecting MozillaFirefox-devel package, versions <91.9.0-150000.150.34.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (48th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-MOZILLAFIREFOXDEVEL-2812931
  • published10 May 2022
  • disclosed9 May 2022

Introduced: 9 May 2022

CVE-2021-29987  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-307  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 MozillaFirefox-devel to version 91.9.0-150000.150.34.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream MozillaFirefox-devel package and not the MozillaFirefox-devel package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1