Mozilla Firefox up to 126 input Tag denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox up to 126. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component input Tag Handler. Such manipulation leads to denial of service. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2024-5696. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox up to 126. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component input Tag Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

By manipulating the text in an `&lt;input&gt;` tag, an attacker could have caused corrupt memory leading to a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 127, Firefox ESR < 115.12, and Thunderbird < 115.12.

The advisory is available at bugzilla.mozilla.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-5696 since 06/06/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1499 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 239895 (TencentOS Server 2: thunderbird (TSSA-2024:0254)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 127 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (239895). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 4.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 4.1

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Nessus ID: 239895
Nessus Name: TencentOS Server 2: thunderbird (TSSA-2024:0254)

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Firefox 127

Timelineinfo

06/06/2024 🔍
06/11/2024 +5 days 🔍
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11/06/2025 +513 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: bugzilla.mozilla.org
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2024-5696 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-5696
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-267938

Entryinfo

Created: 06/11/2024 15:14
Updated: 11/06/2025 23:52
Changes: 06/11/2024 15:14 (55), 06/13/2024 18:32 (1), 03/24/2025 10:33 (4), 06/18/2025 19:47 (2), 11/06/2025 23:52 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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