CVE-2024-8384
Published: 03 September 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-8384 is a critical-severity Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787) vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox Esr. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked in the top 44.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-49140
Vulnerability details
The JavaScript garbage collector could mis-color cross-compartment objects if OOM conditions were detected at the right point between two passes. This could have led to memory corruption. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 130, Firefox ESR < 128.2, Firefox ESR <…
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115.15, Thunderbird < 128.2, and Thunderbird < 115.15.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
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.
Use-after-free exploits that achieve arbitrary code execution are blocked or significantly hardened by non-executable pages and ASLR.