CVE-2024-29944 (GCVE-0-2024-29944)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-03-22 12:55 – Updated: 2025-03-14 15:08
VLAI
Summary
An attacker was able to inject an event handler into a privileged object that would allow arbitrary JavaScript execution in the parent process. Note: This vulnerability affects Desktop Firefox only, it does not affect mobile versions of Firefox. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 124.0.1 and Firefox ESR < 115.9.1.
Severity
8.4 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-04-04 04:00 UTC
CWE
  • Privileged JavaScript Execution via Event Handlers
  • CWE-830 - Inclusion of Web Functionality from an Untrusted Source
Assigner
mozilla CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 38/100 over 512 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Mozilla Firefox Affected: unspecified , < 124.0.1 (custom)
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Mozilla Firefox ESR Affected: unspecified , < 115.9.1 (custom)
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mozilla firefox Affected: 0 , < 124 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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mozilla firefox_esr Affected: 0 , < 115.9.1 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Manfred Paul via Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative
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