Use of Insufficiently Random Values Affecting Firefox package, versions [,126)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
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-6848695
  • published15 May 2024
  • disclosed14 May 2024
  • creditHanno Böck

Introduced: 14 May 2024

CVE-2024-4772  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-330  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Firefox to version 126 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of Insufficiently Random Values due to the use of a weak random number generator in the rand() function. An attacker can predict nonce values and potentially bypass authentication mechanisms by exploiting the predictable nature of the nonce.

CVSS Scores

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