Arbitrary Code Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package firefox (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published5 Aug 2025
- disclosed22 Mar 2024
Introduced: 22 Mar 2024
CVE-2024-29944 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream firefox package and not the firefox package as distributed by RHEL.
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.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-29944
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/23/1
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1886852
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00028.html
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-15/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-16/