CVE-2024-6609 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

When almost out-of-memory an elliptic curve key which was never allocated could have been freed again. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 128 and Thunderbird < 128.

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 Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00458.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Mozilla	Firefox Thunderbird

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird::::::::

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DLA	DLA-3937-1	nss security update
Debian DSA	DSA-5807-1	nss security update
Ubuntu USN	USN-6890-1	Firefox vulnerabilities

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1839258
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-29/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-32/

History

Thu, 30 Oct 2025 16:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Title		Memory corruption in NSS

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Thu, 29 Aug 2024 19:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Mozilla Mozilla firefox Mozilla thunderbird
Weaknesses		NVD-CWE-noinfo
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:::::::: cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird::::::::
Vendors & Products		Mozilla Mozilla firefox Mozilla thunderbird
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 8.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2024-07-09T14:25:59.075Z

Updated: 2025-10-30T16:14:39.351Z

Reserved: 2024-07-09T14:12:57.118Z

Link: CVE-2024-6609

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T21:41:03.946Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-07-09T15:15:12.923

Modified: 2025-03-13T15:15:50.820

Link: CVE-2024-6609

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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