Medium severity · published Jun 11, 2024
CVE-2024-5690
By monitoring the time certain operations take, an attacker could have guessed which external protocol handlers were functional on a user's system
4.3
CVSS
0.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
By monitoring the time certain operations take, an attacker could have guessed which external protocol handlers were functional on a user's system. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 127, Firefox ESR < 115.12, and Thunderbird < 115.12.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.7% · higher than 54% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FI
Firefox · Mozilla
before 127.0 · source: NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
10.0 · source: NVD
FE
Firefox Esr · Mozilla
before 115.12 · source: NVD
TH
Thunderbird · Mozilla
before 115.12 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-5690
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-5690
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1883693
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00000.html
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00010.html
Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-25/
Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-26/
Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-28/
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