CVE-2024-5690

medium

Description

By monitoring the time certain operations take, an attacker could have guessed which external protocol handlers were functional on a user's system. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 127, Firefox ESR < 115.12, and Thunderbird < 115.12.

References

https://github.com/20142995/wxvl

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-28/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-26/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-25/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00010.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00000.html

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2024-46862

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1883693

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-06-11

Updated: 2025-03-26

Named Vulnerability: GHSA-3fxj-qpxv-j6qj

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N