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

 

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

Published: October 29, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU99491
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-10468
CWE-ID: CWE-362
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Mozilla
Affected software:
Mozilla Firefox
Firefox for Android

Detailed vulnerability description

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.


How to mitigate CVE-2024-10468

Install updates from vendor's website.

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