Firefox Flaw Causes Stuck Fullscreen Mode on macOS
CVE-2024-11698
Currently unrated 🤨
Key Information
- Vendor
- Mozilla
- Status
- Firefox
- Firefox Esr
- Thunderbird
- Vendor
- CVE Published:
- 26 November 2024
Summary
A flaw in handling fullscreen transitions may have inadvertently caused the application to become stuck in fullscreen mode when a modal dialog was opened during the transition. This issue left users unable to exit fullscreen mode using standard actions like pressing "Esc" or accessing right-click menus, resulting in a disrupted browsing experience until the browser is restarted.
This bug only affects the application when running on macOS. Other operating systems are unaffected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 133, Firefox ESR < 128.5, Thunderbird < 133, and Thunderbird < 128.5.
Affected Version(s)
Firefox < 133
Firefox ESR < 128.5
Thunderbird < 133
Refferences
Timeline
Vulnerability published
Vulnerability Reserved
Collectors
NVD DatabaseMitre Database
Credit
Kang Ali of Punggawa Cybersecurity