CVE-2024-6615 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 127 and Thunderbird 127. 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 < 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 0.00435.

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
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/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1892875%2C1894428%2C1898364
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 safety bugs fixed in Firefox 128 and Thunderbird 128

Wed, 06 Nov 2024 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Mozilla Mozilla firefox Mozilla thunderbird
Weaknesses		CWE-787
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'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2024-07-09T14:26:01.065Z

Updated: 2025-10-30T16:16:20.528Z

Reserved: 2024-07-09T14:12:57.830Z

Link: CVE-2024-6615

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T21:41:04.046Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-07-09T15:15:13.307

Modified: 2025-04-04T14:41:55.703

Link: CVE-2024-6615

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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