CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-34414

3.1 LOW Published 2023-06-19 Modified 2026-10-24 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-06-19
Last modified
2026-10-24
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
3.1 LOW — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Weaknesses
CWE-295

Description

The error page for sites with invalid TLS certificates was missing the activation-delay Firefox uses to protect prompts and permission dialogs from attacks that exploit human response time delays. If a malicious page elicited user clicks in precise locations immediately before navigating to a site with a certificate error and made the renderer extremely busy at the same time, it could create a gap between when the error page was loaded and when the display actually refreshed. With the right timing the elicited clicks could land in that gap and activate the button that overrides the certificate error for that site. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 102.12, Firefox < 114, and Thunderbird < 102.12.

Affected configurations

• mozilla firefox (< 114.0) • mozilla firefox esr (< 102.12) • mozilla thunderbird (< 102.12)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation weakness

References