CVE-2024-3864 (GCVE-0-2024-3864)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-04-16 15:14 – Updated: 2025-03-28 23:27
VLAI
Summary
Memory safety bug present in Firefox 124, Firefox ESR 115.9, and Thunderbird 115.9. This bug showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort this could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 125, Firefox ESR < 115.10, and Thunderbird < 115.10.
Severity
8.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-08-12 16:57 UTC
CWE
  • Memory safety bug fixed in Firefox 125, Firefox ESR 115.10, and Thunderbird 115.10
  • CWE-119 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Mozilla Firefox Affected: unspecified , < 125 (custom)
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Mozilla Firefox ESR Affected: unspecified , < 115.10 (custom)
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Mozilla Thunderbird Affected: unspecified , < 115.10 (custom)
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mozilla thunderbird Affected: 0 , ≤ 115.9 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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mozilla firefox_esr Affected: 0 , ≤ 115.9 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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mozilla firefox Affected: 0 , ≤ 124 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Paul Bone
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