High severity · published Mar 22, 2024
CVE-2024-29944
An attacker was able to inject an event handler into a privileged object that would allow arbitrary JavaScript execution in the parent process
8.4
CVSS
4.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)4.7% · higher than 92% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FI
Firefox · Mozilla
before 124.0.1 · source: vendor, NVD, CISA
FE
Firefox ESR · Mozilla
before 115.9.1 · source: vendor, CISA
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
10.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-29944
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-29944
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/23/1
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1886852
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00028.html
Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-15/
Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-16/
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