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. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (25th percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications
  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FIREFOX-7891221
  • published4 Sept 2024
  • disclosed3 Sept 2024
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Sep 2024

CVE-2024-8383  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-755  (opens 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