{"id":"CVE-2024-8383","details":"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 \u003c 130, Firefox ESR \u003c 128.2, and Firefox ESR \u003c 115.15.","modified":"2026-04-16T04:40:20.279668336Z","published":"2024-09-03T13:15:05.687Z","related":["ALSA-2024:6681","ALSA-2024:6682","CGA-87h9-xp8q-cmwx","SUSE-SU-2024:3152-1","SUSE-SU-2024:3157-1","openSUSE-SU-2024:14358-1","openSUSE-SU-2024:14369-1","openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1"],"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00012.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00025.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-39/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-40/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-41/"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1908496"}],"affected":[{"database_specific":{"unresolved_ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"130.0"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"115.15"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"128.0"},{"fixed":"128.2"}]}],"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-8383.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"}]}