Firefox normally asks for confirmation before asking the operating system to find an application to handle a scheme that the browser does not support. It did not ask before doing so for the Usenet-related schemes news: and snews:. Since most operating systems don't have a trusted newsreader installed by default, an unscrupulous program that the user downloaded could register itself as a handler. The website that served the application download could then launch that application at will. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 130, Firefox ESR < 128.2, and Firefox ESR < 115.15.
CVE-2024-8383
Score 7.5 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2024-09-03. NVD baseline CVSS 7.5; sources differ by 0.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 7.5
- EG Score
- 7.5(medium)
- EG Risk
- 49(Track)EG Risk 49/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity75% × 45%Exploitation1% × 40%Automatability100% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS
- 46.8%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
September 3, 2024
Last Modified
November 4, 2025
References (6)
- security@mozillahttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1908496
- security@mozillahttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-39/
- security@mozillahttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-40/
- security@mozillahttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-41/
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00012.html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00025.html
Patch Availability(10)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | firefox-mozsymbols (130.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1) @ focal | 2026-05-23 | ubuntu |
| redhat | firefox-0:128.2.0-1.el7_9 | 2024-09-19 | redhat |
| redhat | firefox-0:128.2.0-1.el8_2 | 2024-09-19 | redhat |
| redhat | firefox-0:128.2.0-1.el8_4 | 2024-09-19 | redhat |
| redhat | firefox-0:128.2.0-1.el8_6 | 2024-09-19 | redhat |
| redhat | firefox-0:128.2.0-1.el8_8 | 2024-09-19 | redhat |
| redhat | firefox-0:128.2.0-1.el9_0 | 2024-09-18 | redhat |
| redhat | firefox-0:128.2.0-1.el9_2 | 2024-09-18 | redhat |
| redhat | firefox-0:128.2.0-1.el8_10 | 2024-09-16 | redhat |
| redhat | firefox-0:128.2.0-1.el9_4 | 2024-09-16 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
All Vendor Advisories
(10)
Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.
- Red HatRHSA-2024:6681MODERATE2024-09-03
RHSA-2024:6681 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2024:6682MODERATE2024-09-03
RHSA-2024:6682 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2024:6782MODERATE2024-09-03
RHSA-2024:6782 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2024:6786MODERATE2024-09-03
RHSA-2024:6786 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2024:6838MODERATE2024-09-03
RHSA-2024:6838 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2024:6839MODERATE2024-09-03
RHSA-2024:6839 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2024:6850MODERATE2024-09-03
RHSA-2024:6850 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2024:6891MODERATE2024-09-03
RHSA-2024:6891 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2024:6892MODERATE2024-09-03
RHSA-2024:6892 — Moderate
- UbuntuUSN-6992-1MEDIUM
Firefox vulnerabilities
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