Mozilla Firefox up to 125 on Android Web Application Manifest weak password hash

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Mozilla Firefox up to 125 on Android. The affected element is an unknown function of the component Web Application Manifest Handler. The manipulation leads to weak password hash. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-4765. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox up to 125 on Android. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Web Application Manifest Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a weak password hash vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-916. The product generates a hash for a password, but it uses a scheme that does not provide a sufficient level of computational effort that would make password cracking attacks infeasible or expensive. Impacted is integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Web application manifests were stored by using an insecure MD5 hash which allowed for a hash collision to overwrite another application's manifest. This could have been exploited to run arbitrary code in another application's context. *This issue only affects Firefox for Android. Other versions of Firefox are unaffected.* This vulnerability affects Firefox < 126.

It is possible to read the advisory at bugzilla.mozilla.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-4765 since 05/10/2024. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/30/2024). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1552 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 126 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Web Browser

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• Mozilla

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• Firefox

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• 125

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.mozilla.org/
• Product: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

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