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Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions Affecting Firefox package, versions [,130.0)

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.05% (24th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UNMANAGED-FIREFOX-7891221
  • published 4 Sep 2024
  • disclosed 3 Sep 2024
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 3 Sep 2024

CVE-2024-8383 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-755 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Firefox to version 130.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions due to the improper handling of news: and snews: URL schemes. An attacker can launch arbitrary applications on the user's system by tricking the user into downloading a malicious application that registers itself as the default handler for these schemes.

CVSS Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
8.6 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Attack Requirements (AT)
    None
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Active
  • Confidentiality (VC)
    High
  • Integrity (VI)
    High
  • Availability (VA)
    High
  • Confidentiality (SC)
    None
  • Integrity (SI)
    None
  • Availability (SA)
    None