CVE-2024-10464 Denial of service in Firefox

High 7.5 Published Updated

Attackers can cause a Denial of Service in Firefox and Thunderbird by repeatedly writing to history interface attributes, requiring an upgrade to patched versions.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2024-10464?

CVE-2024-10464 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 29 Oct 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Repeated writes to history interface attributes could have been used to cause a Denial of Service condition in the browser. This was addressed by introducing rate-limiting to this API. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 132, Firefox ESR < 128.4, Thunderbird < 128.4, and Thunderbird < 132.

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-10464?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird.

How do I fix CVE-2024-10464?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2024-10464 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-10464 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2024-10464, GHSA-r2v5-q2jv-5cff, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-10464.

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