Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting Firefox-ESR package, versions [,128.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.83% (56th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FIREFOXESR-8441554
  • published27 Nov 2024
  • disclosed26 Nov 2024
  • creditMarco Bonardo

Introduced: 26 Nov 2024

CVE-2024-11693  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Firefox-ESR to version 128.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Injection due to the improper handling of .library-ms files. An attacker can execute arbitrary code by convincing a user to download a specially crafted .library-ms file.

Note: This issue only affected Windows operating systems. Other operating systems are unaffected.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1