CVE-2024-3302 (GCVE-0-2024-3302)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-04-16 15:14 – Updated: 2025-03-28 23:33
VLAI
Summary
There was no limit to the number of HTTP/2 CONTINUATION frames that would be processed. A server could abuse this to create an Out of Memory condition in the browser. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 125, Firefox ESR < 115.10, and Thunderbird < 115.10.
Severity
3.7 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE
  • Denial of Service using HTTP/2 CONTINUATION frames
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Mozilla Firefox Affected: unspecified , < 125 (custom)
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Mozilla Firefox ESR Affected: unspecified , < 115.10 (custom)
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Mozilla Thunderbird Affected: unspecified , < 115.10 (custom)
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Credits
Bartek Nowotarski via CERT
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