CVE-2024-4778 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 125. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 126.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00415.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Mozilla Subscribe	Firefox Subscribe

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Ubuntu USN	USN-6779-1	Firefox vulnerabilities

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1838834%2C1889291%2C1889595%2C1890204%2C1891545
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-21/

History

Fri, 04 Apr 2025 14:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Mozilla Mozilla firefox
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox::::::::
Vendors & Products		Mozilla Mozilla firefox

Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2024-05-14T17:21:27.420Z

Updated: 2024-08-01T20:55:08.737Z

Reserved: 2024-05-10T17:37:25.581Z

Link: CVE-2024-4778

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T20:55:08.737Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-05-14T18:15:16.720

Modified: 2025-04-04T14:26:15.660

Link: CVE-2024-4778

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-1260

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