CVE-2024-8394

Sept. 11, 2024, 4:25 p.m.

CVSS Score

6.5 / 10

Products Impacted

Vendor Product Versions
mozilla
  • thunderbird
  • *

Description

When aborting the verification of an OTR chat session, an attacker could have caused a use-after-free bug leading to a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 128.2.

Weaknesses

CWE-416
Use After Free

Referencing memory after it has been freed can cause a program to crash, use unexpected values, or execute code.

CWE ID: 416

Date

Published: Sept. 6, 2024, 5:15 p.m.

Last Modified: Sept. 11, 2024, 4:25 p.m.

Status : Analyzed

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

security@mozilla.org

CPEs

Type Vendor Product Version Update Edition Language Software Edition Target Software Target Hardware Other Information
a mozilla thunderbird / / / / / / / /

CVSS Data

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score
6.5
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
Base Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS Vector String

The CVSS vector string provides an in-depth view of the vulnerability metrics.

View Vector String

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References