CVE-2011-3866

medium

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 7.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.4 do not properly restrict availability of motion data events, which makes it easier for remote attackers to read keystrokes by leveraging JavaScript code running in a background tab.

References

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https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A13954

http://www.usenix.org/events/hotsec11/tech/tech.html#Cai

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=682562

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-45.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2011-09-29

Updated: 2025-04-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N