CVE-2011-3866
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.3
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-45.html
- http://www.usenix.org/events/hotsec11/tech/tech.html#Cai
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=682562
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A13954
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-45.html
- http://www.usenix.org/events/hotsec11/tech/tech.html#Cai
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=682562
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A13954
CWEs
CWE-264
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.