vulnerability
MFSA2024-40 Firefox: Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 128.2 (CVE-2024-8383)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N) | Sep 3, 2024 | Sep 5, 2024 | Jan 30, 2025 |
Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N)
Published
Sep 3, 2024
Added
Sep 5, 2024
Modified
Jan 30, 2025
Description
Firefox normally asks for confirmation before asking the operating system to find an application to handle a scheme that the browser does not support. It did not ask before doing so for the Usenet-related schemes news: and snews:. Since most operating systems don't have a trusted newsreader installed by default, an unscrupulous program that the user downloaded could register itself as a handler. The website that served the application download could then launch that application at will. This vulnerability affects Firefox
Solution
mozilla-firefox-esr-upgrade-128_2
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