CVE-2024-2605 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An attacker could have leveraged the Windows Error Reporter to run arbitrary code on the system escaping the sandbox. *Note:* This issue only affected Windows operating systems. Other operating systems are unaffected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 124, Firefox ESR < 115.9, and Thunderbird < 115.9.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Mozilla	Firefox Firefox Esr Thunderbird

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References

Link	Providers
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1872920
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-2605
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-2605
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2024-13/#CVE-2024-2605
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2024-14/#CVE-2024-2605
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-12/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-13/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-14/

History

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 19:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Mozilla Mozilla firefox Mozilla firefox Esr Mozilla thunderbird
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:::::::: cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:::::::: cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird::::::::
Vendors & Products		Mozilla Mozilla firefox Mozilla firefox Esr Mozilla thunderbird
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Wed, 28 Aug 2024 16:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	cvssV3_1 `{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}`	cvssV3_1 `{'score': 5.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2024-03-19T12:02:51.825Z

Updated: 2025-03-13T18:16:41.217Z

Reserved: 2024-03-18T16:16:17.384Z

Link: CVE-2024-2605

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T19:18:48.230Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-03-19T12:15:08.690

Modified: 2024-11-21T09:10:06.350

Link: CVE-2024-2605

Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2024-03-19T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2024-2605 - Bugzilla

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