Arbitrary Code Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package firefox-x11 (opens in a new tab)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-x11 package and not the firefox-x11 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/