Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-7528

High

Published: 06 August 2024

Published
06 August 2024
Modified
12 August 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0024 47.1th percentile
Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-7528 is a high-severity Use After Free (CWE-416) vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 47.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Incorrect garbage collection interaction in IndexedDB could have led to a use-after-free. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 129, Firefox ESR < 128.1, and Thunderbird < 128.1.

CWE(s)
CWE-416

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

mozilla
firefox
≤ 129.0
mozilla
firefox esr
≤ 128.1.0
mozilla
thunderbird
≤ 128.1.0

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

SI-16 Memory Protection
addresses: CWE-416

Use-after-free exploits that achieve arbitrary code execution are blocked or significantly hardened by non-executable pages and ASLR.

References