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Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions Affecting Firefox-ESR package, versions [,115.15) [,128.2)

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-FIREFOXESR-7891222
  • 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-ESR to version 115.15, 128.2 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