CVE-2024-8383

Firefox normally asks for confirmation before asking the operating system to find an application to handle a scheme that the browser does not support. It did not ask before doing so for the Usenet-related schemes news: and snews:. Since most operating systems don't have a trusted newsreader installed by default, an unscrupulous program that the user downloaded could register itself as a handler. The website that served the application download could then launch that application at will. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 130, Firefox ESR < 128.2, and Firefox ESR < 115.15.

• CWE-1188

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1908496Issue Tracking, Permissions Required
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-39/Vendor Advisory
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-40/Vendor Advisory
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-41/Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00012.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00025.html

Published

Sep 3, 2024

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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