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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.9

CVE-2024-2605 json

An attacker could have leveraged the Windows Error Reporter to run arbitrary code on the system escaping the sandbox.

published 2024-03-19 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-27554

cvss
5.9
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 48%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An attacker could have leveraged the Windows Error Reporter to run arbitrary code on the system escaping the sandbox. *Note:* This issue only affected Windows operating systems. Other operating systems are unaffected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 124, Firefox ESR < 115.9, and Thunderbird < 115.9.

Patch / fix

  • Mozilla Firefox 124
  • Mozilla Firefox ESR 115.9
  • Mozilla Thunderbird 115.9
  • mozilla firefox_esr 115.9
  • MozillaThunderbird SLE Workstation Extension 15 SP5, SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP5, openSUSE Leap 15.5 115.9.0-150200.8.154.1
  • MozillaFirefox SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES for SAP 15 SP2 +10 more 115.9.1-150200.152.131.1
  • MozillaFirefox SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 115.9.0-112.203.2

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2024:1147-1SUSE-SU-2024:1002-1SUSE-SU-2024:0971-1

  • firefox-esr openSUSE Tumbleweed 128.5.1-1.1
  • MozillaThunderbird openSUSE Tumbleweed 115.9.0-1.1
  • MozillaFirefox openSUSE Tumbleweed 124.0.1-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1openSUSE-SU-2024:13789-1openSUSE-SU-2024:13795-1

  • firefox-esr Alpine 3.19, Alpine 3.18 115.9.0-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2024-2605

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-2605 updated cvss 7.5

Mozilla: Windows Error Reporter could be used as a Sandbox escape vector

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 firefox, thunderbird Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 firefox, thunderbird Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 firefox, thunderbird Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 firefox, firefox-x11, thunderbird
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.58% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 48% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CNA 3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected products

  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Mozilla Firefox ESR
  • Mozilla Thunderbird
  • mozilla firefox_esr

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.