Closed Bug 1765131 Opened 4 years ago Closed 4 years ago

OSX firewall asking if it want to allow *incoming* connections to Firefox when I visit https://smotrim.ru/live/21

Categories

(Core :: Widget: Cocoa, defect)

Firefox 99
defect

Tracking

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RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: firefox, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:99.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/99.0

Steps to reproduce:

OSX firewall asking if it want to allow incoming connections to Firefox when I visit https://smotrim.ru/live/21 and wait a few seconds

Actual results:

Showing a question popup about if the firewall should allow incoming connections

Expected results:

No popup should be shown

Not sure, but maybe this is a 0 day exploit which installs something?

Website is a livestreaming website, which shows Russia24 (was curious about if its still alive, on twitter they said Russia24 is offline).

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::DOM: Core & HTML' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Component: Untriaged → DOM: Core & HTML
Product: Firefox → Core

(In reply to firefox from comment #1)

Not sure, but maybe this is a 0 day exploit which installs something?

Component: DOM: Core & HTML → Widget: Cocoa

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:spohl, could you have a look please?

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Flags: needinfo?(spohl.mozilla.bugs)

Web browsers require incoming connections for various purposes. By default, macOS is set to accept incoming connections for signed applications, which includes Firefox. Please review your macOS Firewall settings.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 4 years ago
Flags: needinfo?(spohl.mozilla.bugs)
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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