CVE-2011-3649: Mozilla Firefox

Low severity, CVSS 2.6. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Mozilla Firefox 7.0 and Thunderbird 7.0, when the Direct2D (aka D2D) API is used on Windows in conjunction with the Azure graphics back-end, allow remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy, and obtain sensitive image data from a different domain, by inserting this data into a canvas. NOTE: this issue exists because of a CVE-2011-2986 regression.

Affected products

  • Mozilla Firefox: version 7.0 only
  • Mozilla Thunderbird: version 7.0 only

Published 2011-11-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.