Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2024-16

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 115.9.1

Announced
March 22, 2024
Impact
critical
Products
Firefox ESR
Fixed in
  • Firefox ESR 115.9.1

#CVE-2024-29944: Privileged JavaScript Execution via Event Handlers

Reporter
Manfred Paul via Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative
Impact
critical
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.

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