🛡️ CVE-2024-5690
🟡 CVSS 4.3 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-203 NVD
4.3
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

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.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 4.3
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-203
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-06-11
Updated 2026-06-02
Modified 2025-03-26
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
debian-linux
firefox 127.0
firefox-esr 115.12
thunderbird 115.12

References

Issue Tracking, Permissions Required https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1883693
Issue Tracking, Permissions Required https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1883693

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