Exposed dangerous method or function in Mozilla products - CVE-2024-8382
Published: September 3, 2024
Vulnerability identifier: #VU96736
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-8382
CWE-ID: CWE-749
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Mozilla
Affected software:
Mozilla Firefox
Firefox ESR
Firefox for Android
Mozilla Firefox
Firefox ESR
Firefox for Android
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to internal browser event interfaces are exposed to web content when privileged EventHandler listener callbacks ran for those events. A remote attacker can indicate usage of certain browser features, such as when a user opens the Dev Tools console.
How to mitigate CVE-2024-8382
Install updates from vendor's website.