CVE-2021-29975

MEDIUM

Firefox < 90.0 - Spoofing via DOM Message Overlay

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Through a series of DOM manipulations, a message, over which the attacker had control of the text but not HTML or formatting, could be overlaid on top of another domain (with the new domain correctly shown in the address bar) resulting in possible user confusion. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 90.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1713259
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202202-03

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0026
EPSS Percentile 48.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Details

Status published
Products (1)
mozilla/firefox < 90.0
Published Aug 05, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026