Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NCVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.
Summary
CVE-2024-8897 is a medium-severity Open Redirect (CWE-601) vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Phishing (T1566); ranked in the top 6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and AC-4 (Information Flow Enforcement) — see the control section below for these in your framework.
Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary
Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.
CVE-2024-8897 is an open redirect flaw that permits address bar spoofing in Firefox for Android versions prior to 130.0.1. The vulnerability, tracked under CWE-601, allows a malicious site to appear to share the same URL as a trusted site when an attacker can chain an open redirect on the trusted domain. It carries a CVSS 3.1 score of 6.1 and does not affect desktop Firefox or other Mozilla products.
An attacker who can induce a victim to follow a crafted link that triggers the open redirect may spoof the displayed URL, potentially facilitating phishing by making a malicious page masquerade as content from the trusted origin. Exploitation requires user interaction via a redirect and network-level reachability, but no authentication or special privileges on the target device.
Mozilla's advisory MFSA2024-45 and the associated Bugzilla entry confirm that the issue is resolved in Firefox for Android 130.0.1; users are advised to update promptly. The EPSS score remains flat at 0.1183 with no material increase observed after disclosure.
OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-49463
Vulnerability Data
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…
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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.
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V3.7.2
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Input validation directly checks and rejects untrusted redirect targets before they are used in a response.
Information flow enforcement can restrict redirects to only approved/trusted destinations, stopping untrusted user-supplied URLs from being followed.
Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Secure SDLC practices directly require input validation and untrusted-redirect controls that prevent CWE-601.
Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Preventing access to attacker-controlled or malicious sites stops users from being redirected to untrusted locations via open-redirect or phishing links.