CVE-2024-6607: Mozilla Firefox

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

It was possible to prevent a user from exiting pointerlock when pressing escape and to overlay customValidity notifications from a `&lt;select&gt;` 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.

Affected products

  • Mozilla Firefox: before 128.0 (fixed in 128.0)
  • Mozilla Thunderbird: before 128.0 (fixed in 128.0)

Published 2024-07-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.