Mozilla Firefox up to 130.0.0 on Android Address Bar redirect

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A vulnerability has been found in Mozilla Firefox up to 130.0.0 on Android and classified as critical. This affects an unknown part of the component Address Bar Handler. The manipulation leads to redirect. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2024-8897. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox up to 130.0.0 on Android and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown part of the component Address Bar Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a redirect vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-601. A web application accepts a user-controlled input that specifies a link to an external site, and uses that link in a Redirect. This simplifies phishing attacks. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Under certain conditions, an attacker with the ability to redirect users to a malicious site via an open redirect on a trusted site, may be able to spoof the address bar contents. This can lead to a malicious site to appear to have the same URL as the trusted site. *This bug only affects Firefox for Android. Other versions of Firefox are unaffected.* This vulnerability affects Firefox for Android < 130.0.1.

It is possible to read the advisory at bugzilla.mozilla.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-8897 since 09/16/2024. 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 09/26/2024). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1204.001 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 130.0.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Web Browser

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• Mozilla

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• Firefox

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• 130.0

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• open-source

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

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