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CVE-2024-10468 (GCVE-0-2024-10468)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-10-29 12:19 – Updated: 2024-10-29 14:22
VLAI
Summary
Potential race conditions in IndexedDB could have caused memory corruption, leading to a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 132 and Thunderbird < 132.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-10-29 14:16 UTC
CWE
  • Race conditions in IndexedDB
  • CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Mozilla Firefox Affected: unspecified , < 132 (custom)
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Mozilla Thunderbird Affected: unspecified , < 132 (custom)
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mozilla firefox Affected: 0 , < 132 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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mozilla thunderbird Affected: 0 , < 132 (custom)
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Credits
Tyson Smith
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        "datePublished": "2024-10-29T12:19:19.111Z",
        "dateReserved": "2024-10-28T14:23:24.421Z",
        "dateUpdated": "2024-10-29T14:22:29.067Z",
        "state": "PUBLISHED"
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}



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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

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