Insufficient UI Warning of Dangerous Operations in Mozilla Firefox and Firefox ESR - CVE-2024-11693

Vulnerability identifier: #VU100954

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green

CVE-ID: CVE-2024-11693

CWE-ID: CWE-357

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Affected software:
Mozilla Firefox
Firefox ESR
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro
SUSE Enterprise Storage
Slackware Linux
Desktop Applications Module
SUSE Package Hub 15
openSUSE Leap
openEuler
Fedora
Oracle Solaris
Mozilla Thunderbird
icecat-flatpak
icecat
mozilla-thunderbird
mozilla-firefox
thunderbird
MozillaFirefox-debugsource
MozillaFirefox-debuginfo
MozillaFirefox-translations-common
MozillaFirefox-devel
MozillaFirefox
MozillaThunderbird-debuginfo
MozillaThunderbird-translations-other
MozillaThunderbird-debugsource
MozillaThunderbird-translations-common
MozillaThunderbird
MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream
MozillaFirefox-translations-other
thunderbird-wayland
thunderbird-librnp-rnp
thunderbird-debugsource
thunderbird-debuginfo

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.

The vulnerability exists due to a file warning is not displayed when downloading .library-ms files. A remote attacker can trick the victim into downloading and execution malicious files on the system.

Note, the vulnerability affects only installations on Windows operating system.

Install updates from vendor's website.

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1921458
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-63/
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-64/