Re: [csswg-drafts] Review the security model of how we interact with iframes (#3382)

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Migrated from https://github.com/WICG/spatial-navigation/issues/28#issuecomment-407793393
Originally created by @frivoal on *Wed, 25 Jul 2018 15:23:08 GMT*

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In 7.2, step 8.else.2.else means that the search for focusable or scrollable elements up the tree will cross iframe boundaries. However, the details of it mean that events don't leak information about the content of the iframe, since *starting point*, *event target* and *container* are retargetted against the iframe element itself, and no longer carry information about the elements inside the iframe's document.

This means that there isn't really any information leak. Regardless of which element in the iframe was focused (or if none was focused), you'll get the same event.

The only case of information leakage I think is when the author would use`window.navigate`, while the focus is in an iframe, if they don't get an event at all it means that either there was something scrollable of focusable within the iframe, as the only case where you get an event is when the search didn't find anything at all goes up the tree.

This is so limited information that I don't think it introduces real security problems, but it is as far as I can tell information that you could not get otherwise.

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