#VU99485 Universal cross-site scripting in Mozilla products - CVE-2024-10461
Published: October 29, 2024
Vulnerability identifier: #VU99485
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-10461
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Mozilla Firefox
Firefox ESR
Firefox for Android
Mozilla Firefox
Firefox ESR
Firefox for Android
Software vendor:
Mozilla
Mozilla
Description
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data when handling multipart/x-mixed-replace responses. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of any website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
Remediation
Install updates from vendor's website.