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CVE-2024-8900 (GCVE-0-2024-8900)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-09-17 18:14 – Updated: 2025-03-18 20:17
VLAI
Summary
An attacker could write data to the user's clipboard, bypassing the user prompt, during a certain sequence of navigational events. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 129, Firefox ESR < 128.3, and Thunderbird < 128.3.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-03-18 20:14 UTC
CWE
  • Clipboard write permission bypass
  • CWE-732 - Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Mozilla Firefox Affected: unspecified , < 129 (custom)
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Mozilla Firefox ESR Affected: unspecified , < 128.3 (custom)
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Mozilla Thunderbird Affected: unspecified , < 128.3 (custom)
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Credits
Om Apip
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