Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Affecting Firefox-ESR package, versions [,115.11)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (13th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FIREFOXESR-6848791
  • published15 May 2024
  • disclosed14 May 2024
  • creditKim Do Hun

Introduced: 14 May 2024

CVE-2024-4767  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Firefox-ESR to version 115.11 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor due to improper handling of IndexedDB files when the browser.privatebrowsing.autostart preference is enabled. An attacker can access residual data by exploiting this mismanagement.

CVSS Scores

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