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OESA-2024-2063 (CVE-2024-29944)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2024-08-30 11:07 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:07 – Source website

Summary

firefox security update

Details

Mozilla Firefox is a standalone web browser, designed for standards compliance and performance. Its functionality can be enhanced via a plethora of extensions.

Security Fix(es):

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.(CVE-2024-29944)

Severity

8.8 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

URL

Type

	https://www.openeuler.org/zh/security/security-bu…	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-29944	ADVISORY

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  "modified": "2026-08-06T11:07:32Z",
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CVE-2024-29944 (GCVE-0-2024-29944)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-03-22 12:55 – Updated: 2025-03-14 15:08

Summary

Severity

8.4 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-04-04 04:00 UTC

CWE

Privileged JavaScript Execution via Event Handlers
CWE-830 - Inclusion of Web Functionality from an Untrusted Source

Assigner

mozilla mitre root

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1886852
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2…
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2…
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024…
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/23/1

Impacted products

4 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Mozilla	Firefox	Affected: unspecified , < 124.0.1 (custom)
Mozilla	Firefox ESR	Affected: unspecified , < 115.9.1 (custom)
mozilla	firefox	Affected: 0 , < 124 (custom) cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox::::::::
mozilla	firefox_esr	Affected: 0 , < 115.9.1 (custom) cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr::::::::

Credits

Manfred Paul via Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative

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