Bug 1077019 (CVE-2014-1499)

Summary: CVE-2014-1499 Mozilla: Spoofing attack on WebRTC permission prompt (MFSA 2014-19)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-03-17 02:59:34 UTC 
Mozilla developer Ehsan Akhgari reported a spoofing attack where the permission prompt for a WebRTC session can appear to be from a different site than its actual originating site if a timed navigation occurs during the prompt generation. This allows an attacker to potentially gain access to the webcam or microphone by masquerading as another site and gaining user permission through spoofing.



External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-19.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Ehsan Akhgari as the original reporter.

Statement:

This issue does not affect the version of firefox and thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6