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Missing Authorization The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package firefox  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-FIREFOX-9474615
  • published18 Mar 2025
  • disclosed3 Sept 2024
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Introduced: 3 Sep 2024

CVE-2024-8383  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-862  (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.

Firefox normally asks for confirmation before asking the operating system to find an application to handle a scheme that the browser does not support. It did not ask before doing so for the Usenet-related schemes news: and snews:. Since most operating systems don't have a trusted newsreader installed by default, an unscrupulous program that the user downloaded could register itself as a handler. The website that served the application download could then launch that application at will. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 130, Firefox ESR < 128.2, and Firefox ESR < 115.15.