CVE-2024-6601 (GCVE-0-2024-6601)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-07-09 14:25 – Updated: 2025-10-30 16:14
VLAI
Title
Race condition in permission assignment
Summary
A race condition could lead to a cross-origin container obtaining permissions of the top-level origin. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 128, Firefox ESR < 115.13, Thunderbird < 115.13, and Thunderbird < 128.
Severity
4.7 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-07-23 19:21 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-367 - Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
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 , < 128 (custom)
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Mozilla Firefox ESR Affected: unspecified , < 115.13 (custom)
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Mozilla Thunderbird Affected: unspecified , < 115.13 (custom)
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Mozilla Thunderbird Affected: unspecified , < 128 (custom)
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Credits
Andreas Farre
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