Mozilla Firefox History Interface Attribute denial of service

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A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in Mozilla Firefox. This impacts an unknown function of the component History Interface Attribute Handler. The manipulation leads to denial of service. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2024-10464. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox (the affected version is unknown) and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown code of the component History Interface Attribute 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. The summary by CVE is:

Repeated writes to history interface attributes could have been used to cause a Denial of Service condition in the browser. This was addressed by introducing rate-limiting to this API. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 132, Firefox ESR < 128.4, Thunderbird < 128.4, and Thunderbird < 132.

It is possible to read the advisory at bugzilla.mozilla.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-10464 since 10/28/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. 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 attack technique deployed by this issue is T1499 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 209869 (Mozilla Firefox ESR < 128.4), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (209869). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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• Web Browser

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• Mozilla

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• Firefox

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• open-source

Website

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

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