Description

Firefox normally asks for confirmation before asking the operating system to find an application to handle a scheme that the browser does not support. It did not ask before doing so for the Usenet-related schemes news: and snews:. Since most operating systems don't have a trusted newsreader installed by default, an unscrupulous program that the user downloaded could register itself as a handler. The website that served the application download could then launch that application at will. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 130, Firefox ESR < 128.2, and Firefox ESR < 115.15.

INFO

Published Date :

2024-09-03T12:32:18.363Z

Last Modified :

2025-11-04T16:16:03.161Z

Source :

mozilla
AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2024-8383 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Mozilla
  • Firefox
  • Firefox Esr
Redhat
  • Enterprise Linux
  • Rhel Aus
  • Rhel E4s
  • Rhel Els
  • Rhel Eus
  • Rhel Tus
REFERENCES

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2024-8383.

URL Resource
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1908496 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00012.html cve-icon
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00025.html cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8383 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-8383 cve-icon
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-39/ cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-40/ cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-41/ cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
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