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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.
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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 vul
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 vul
Removed
Reference
Mozilla Corporation https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-43/
Removed
Reference
Mozilla Corporation https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-44/
CVE Modified by Mozilla Corporation9/06/2024 1:15:17 PM
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 vul
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 vul
Added
Reference
Mozilla Corporation https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-43/ [No types assigned]
Added
Reference
Mozilla Corporation https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-44/ [No types assigned]
Initial Analysis by NIST9/04/2024 11:09:52 AM
Action
Type
Old Value
New Value
Added
CPE Configuration
OR
*cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 130.0
*cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 115.15
*cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 128.0 up to (excluding) 128.2
Added
CVSS V3.1
NIST AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Added
CWE
NIST NVD-CWE-noinfo
Changed
Reference Type
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1908496 No Types Assigned
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 vuln
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 vul
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 vuln
Added
Reference
Mozilla Corporation https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1908496 [No types assigned]
Added
Reference
Mozilla Corporation https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-39/ [No types assigned]
Added
Reference
Mozilla Corporation https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-40/ [No types assigned]
Added
Reference
Mozilla Corporation https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-41/ [No types assigned]
Quick Info
CVE Dictionary Entry: CVE-2024-8383 NVD
Published Date: 09/03/2024 NVD
Last Modified: 10/30/2024
Source: Mozilla Corporation
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