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Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2012-18

window.fullScreen writeable by untrusted content

Announced
March 13, 2012
Reporter
Matt Brubeck
Impact
Moderate
Products
Firefox, Firefox ESR, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird, Thunderbird ESR
Fixed in
  • Firefox 11
  • Firefox ESR 10.0.3
  • SeaMonkey 2.8
  • Thunderbird 11
  • Thunderbird ESR 10.0.3

Description

Mozilla developer Matt Brubeck reported that window.fullScreen is writeable by untrusted content now that the DOM fullscreen API is enabled. Because window.fullScreen does not include mozRequestFullscreen's security protections, it could be used for UI spoofing. This code change makes window.fullScreen read only by untrusted content, forcing the use of the DOM fullscreen API in normal usage.

Firefox 3.6 and Thunderbird 3.1 are not affected by this vulnerability.

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