Vulnerabilities > CVE-2024-5690 - Information Exposure Through Discrepancy vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
LOW Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
NONE Summary
By monitoring the time certain operations take, an attacker could have guessed which external protocol handlers were functional on a user's system. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 127, Firefox ESR < 115.12, and Thunderbird < 115.12.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1883693
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-25/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-26/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00000.html
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-28/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00010.html