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CVE-2024-29944

Mozilla: Privileged JavaScript Execution via Event Handlers

Published Modified CWE 830
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

Red Hat8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by Red Hat, AlmaLinux, Oracle, Rocky Linux. Rated lower by Ubuntu (medium).

Description

An attacker was able to inject an event handler into a privileged object that would allow arbitrary JavaScript execution in the parent process. Note: This vulnerability affects Desktop Firefox only, it does not affect mobile versions of Firefox. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 124.0.1 and Firefox ESR < 115.9.1.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
alma 8firefox115.9.1-1.el8_9.alma.1
alma 9firefox, firefox-x11115.9.1-1.el9_3.alma.1
Oracle Linux 7firefox115.9.1-1.0.1.el7_9
Oracle Linux 8firefox115.9.1-1.0.1.el8_9
Oracle Linux 9firefox, firefox-x11115.9.1-1.0.1.el9_3
Red Hatfirefox, firefox-flatpak-containerno fix listed
rocky 8firefox115.9.1-1.el8_9
alpine 3.18firefox-esr115.9.1-r0
alpine 3.19firefox-esr, mozjs115115.9.1-r0
alpine 3.20mozjs115115.9.1-r0
alpine 3.21mozjs115.9.1-r0
alpine 3.22mozjs115.9.1-r0
Show all 29 entries from 24 sources
SourcePackageFixed in
alma 8firefox115.9.1-1.el8_9.alma.1
alma 9firefox115.9.1-1.el9_3.alma.1
alma 9firefox-x11115.9.1-1.el9_3.alma.1
Oracle Linux 7firefox115.9.1-1.0.1.el7_9
Oracle Linux 8firefox115.9.1-1.0.1.el8_9
Oracle Linux 9firefox115.9.1-1.0.1.el9_3
Oracle Linux 9firefox-x11115.9.1-1.0.1.el9_3
Red Hatfirefoxno fix listed
Red Hatfirefox-flatpak-containerno fix listed
rocky 8firefox115.9.1-1.el8_9
alpine 3.18firefox-esr115.9.1-r0
alpine 3.19firefox-esr115.9.1-r0
alpine 3.19mozjs115115.9.1-r0
alpine 3.20mozjs115115.9.1-r0
alpine 3.21mozjs115.9.1-r0
alpine 3.22mozjs115.9.1-r0
alpine 3.23mozjs115.9.1-r0
alpine 3.24mozjs115.9.1-r0
alpine edgemozjs115.9.1-r0
chainguardfirefox-esr115.9.1-r0
debian 10firefox-esr115.9.1esr-1~deb10u1
debian 11firefox-esr115.9.1esr-1~deb11u1
debian 12firefox-esr115.9.1esr-1~deb12u1
debian 13firefox-esr115.9.1esr-1
debian 14firefox-esr115.9.1esr-1
echofirefox-esr115.9.1esr-1~deb12u1
rapidfort Oracle Linux 9firefox0:115.9.1-1.0.1.el9_3
rapidfort Oracle Linux 9firefox-x110:115.9.1-1.0.1.el9_3
ubuntu 20.04firefox124.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

References

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