Race condition in Mozilla Firefox and Firefox for Android - CVE-2024-10468

Vulnerability identifier: #VU99491

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 7.5 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2024-10468

CWE-ID: CWE-362

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

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

The vulnerability exists due to a race condition in IndexedDB. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website and execute arbitrary code on the system.

Mozilla Firefox
Firefox for Android
Gentoo Linux
Ubuntu
Fedora
Mozilla Thunderbird
www-client/firefox
mail-client/thunderbird
mail-client/thunderbird-bin
dev-lang/spidermonkey
firefox (Ubuntu package)
firefox
thunderbird (Ubuntu package)

Install updates from vendor's website.

Mozilla Firefox - update to 132.0
Firefox for Android - update to 132.0
Mozilla Thunderbird - update to 132.0
www-client/firefox - update to 104
mail-client/thunderbird - update to 128.4.0
mail-client/thunderbird-bin - update to 128.4.0
dev-lang/spidermonkey - update to 128.8.0
firefox (Ubuntu package) - update to 132.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
firefox - addressed in versions 132.0-2.fc40, 132.0-2.fc41
thunderbird (Ubuntu package) - update to 1:140.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.22.04.1

• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2024-55/

• Multiple vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox and Firefox ESR
• Remote code execution in Mozilla Thunderbird
• Fedora 40 update for firefox
• Fedora 41 update for firefox
• Ubuntu update for firefox
• Gentoo update for Mozilla Thunderbird
• Gentoo update for Mozilla Firefox
• Gentoo update for Spidermonkey
• Ubuntu update for thunderbird