Firefox normally asks for confirmation before asking the operating system to find an application to handle a scheme that the browser does not support. It did not ask before doing so for the Usenet-related schemes news: and snews:. Since most operating systems don't have a trusted newsreader installed by default, an unscrupulous program that the user downloaded could register itself as a handler. The website that served the application download could then launch that application at will. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 130, Firefox ESR < 128.2, and Firefox ESR < 115.15.
CVE-2024-8383
Score 7.5 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2024-09-03. NVD baseline CVSS 7.5; sources differ by 0.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 7.5
- EG Score
- 7.5(medium)
- EG Risk
- 49(Track)EG Risk 49/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity75% × 45%Exploitation1% × 40%Automatability100% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 1%
- EPSS %ILE
- 49%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
September 3, 2024
Last Modified
November 4, 2025
References (6)
- security@mozillahttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1908496
- security@mozillahttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-39/
- security@mozillahttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-40/
- security@mozillahttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-41/
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00012.html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00025.html
Patch Availability(10)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | firefox-mozsymbols (130.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1) @ focal | 2026-05-23 | ubuntu |
| redhat | firefox-0:128.2.0-1.el7_9 | 2024-09-19 | redhat |
| redhat | firefox-0:128.2.0-1.el8_2 | 2024-09-19 | redhat |
| redhat | firefox-0:128.2.0-1.el8_4 | 2024-09-19 | redhat |
| redhat | firefox-0:128.2.0-1.el8_6 | 2024-09-19 | redhat |
| redhat | firefox-0:128.2.0-1.el8_8 | 2024-09-19 | redhat |
| redhat | firefox-0:128.2.0-1.el9_0 | 2024-09-18 | redhat |
| redhat | firefox-0:128.2.0-1.el9_2 | 2024-09-18 | redhat |
| redhat | firefox-0:128.2.0-1.el8_10 | 2024-09-16 | redhat |
| redhat | firefox-0:128.2.0-1.el9_4 | 2024-09-16 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(6 across 4 ecosystems)
Debian:11(2)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| firefox-esr | 102.1.0esr-1 ... 91.9.1esr-1~deb9u1 (169 versions) | 115.15.0esr-1~deb11u1 | — |
| thunderbird | 1:102.0.1-1 ... 1:91.9.0-1~deb9u1 (203 versions) | 1:115.15.0-1~deb11u1 | — |
Debian:12(2)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| firefox-esr | 102.11.0esr-1 ... 115.9.1esr-1~deb12u1 (76 versions) | 115.15.0esr-1~deb12u1 | — |
| thunderbird | 1:102.11.0-1 ... 1:115.9.0-1~deb12u1 (88 versions) | 1:115.15.0-1~deb12u1 | — |
Debian:13(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| firefox-esr | — | 115.15.0esr-1 | — |
Debian:14(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| firefox-esr | — | 115.15.0esr-1 | — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
All Vendor Advisories
(10)
Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.
- Red HatRHSA-2024:6681MODERATE2024-09-03
RHSA-2024:6681 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2024:6682MODERATE2024-09-03
RHSA-2024:6682 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2024:6782MODERATE2024-09-03
RHSA-2024:6782 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2024:6786MODERATE2024-09-03
RHSA-2024:6786 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2024:6838MODERATE2024-09-03
RHSA-2024:6838 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2024:6839MODERATE2024-09-03
RHSA-2024:6839 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2024:6850MODERATE2024-09-03
RHSA-2024:6850 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2024:6891MODERATE2024-09-03
RHSA-2024:6891 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2024:6892MODERATE2024-09-03
RHSA-2024:6892 — Moderate
- UbuntuUSN-6992-1MEDIUM
Firefox vulnerabilities
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