CVE-2024-5690 (GCVE-0-2024-5690)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-06-11 12:40
Modified
2025-03-26 14:05
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • External protocol handlers leaked by timing attack
Summary
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
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Mozilla Firefox Version: unspecified   < 127
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   Mozilla Firefox ESR Version: unspecified   < 115.12
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   Mozilla Thunderbird Version: unspecified   < 115.12
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