CVE-2011-2598

MEDIUM 4.3CVE-2011-2598 · Published 30/06/2011 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2011-2598 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability affecting firefox (mozilla).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.3%, higher than 70.6% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
firefox mozilla	`= 4.0= 4.0.1`	No fix yet

Description

The WebGL implementation in Mozilla Firefox 4.x allows remote attackers to obtain screenshots of the windows of arbitrary desktop applications via vectors involving an SVG filter, an IFRAME element, and uninitialized data in graphics memory.

References

blog.mozilla.com/security/2011/06/16/webgl-graphics-memory-stealing-issue
contextis.com/resources/blog/webgl2 · Exploit
securityfocus.com/bid/48319
theregister.co.uk/2011/06/16/webgl_security_threats_redux
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14207

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Package

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firefox

mozilla

= 4.0= 4.0.1

No fix yet

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