Resource Exhaustion Affecting Firefox package, versions [,125)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FIREFOX-6663925
  • published19 Apr 2024
  • disclosed16 Apr 2024
  • creditLukas Bernhard

Introduced: 16 Apr 2024

CVE-2024-3858  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Firefox to version 125 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Exhaustion due to a flaw in the Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler process. An attacker can cause a denial of service by mutating a JavaScript object in a way that the JIT compiler crashes while tracing it.

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