CVE-2024-29943 (GCVE-0-2024-29943)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-03-22 12:55 – Updated: 2025-02-13 17:47
VLAI
Summary
An attacker was able to perform an out-of-bounds read or write on a JavaScript object by fooling range-based bounds check elimination. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 124.0.1.
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: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-07-10 19:34 UTC
CWE
  • Out-of-bounds access via Range Analysis bypass
  • CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds Read
  • CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds Write
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Mozilla Firefox Affected: unspecified , < 124.0.1 (custom)
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mozilla firefox Affected: 0 , < 124.0.1 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Manfred Paul via Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative
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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

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.