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critical 9.8

CVE-2024-4778 json

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 125.

published 2y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2024-44371

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 38%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • Mozilla Firefox 126
  • firefox Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 126.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2024-4778

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • firefox-esr openSUSE Tumbleweed 128.5.1-1.1
  • MozillaFirefox openSUSE Tumbleweed 126.0-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1openSUSE-SU-2024:13980-1

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
2y ago

Exploit prediction

0.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 38% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • Mozilla Firefox

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-1260 Improper Handling of Overlap Between Protected Memory Ranges

References

Sources

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