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ghsa-h8mp-p8xw-22g5

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-24 19:06

Modified

2022-07-13 00:01

Severity ?

4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Details

When a user has already allowed a website to access microphone and camera, disabling camera sharing would not fully prevent the website from re-enabling it without an additional prompt. This was only possible if the website kept recording with the microphone until re-enabling the camera. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 89.

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CVE-2021-29959 (GCVE-0-2021-29959)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2021-06-24 13:16

Modified

2024-08-03 22:18

Severity ?

CWE

Devices could be re-enabled without additional permission prompt

Summary

When a user has already allowed a website to access microphone and camera, disabling camera sharing would not fully prevent the website from re-enabling it without an additional prompt. This was only possible if the website kept recording with the microphone until re-enabling the camera. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 89.

References

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URL

Tags

	https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-23/	x_refsource_MISC
	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1395819	x_refsource_MISC
	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-09	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Mozilla	Firefox	Version: unspecified < 89

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