CVE-2024-10941 Denial of service in Firefox

What is CVE-2024-10941?

CVE-2024-10941 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 6 Nov 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

A malicious website could have included an iframe with an malformed URI resulting in a non-exploitable browser crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 126.

Weakness: CWE-86

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-10941?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mozilla Firefox.

How do I fix CVE-2024-10941?

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-2024-10941 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-10941 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox

• CVE-2019-11708 Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Sandbox Escape Exploited Critical 10.0
• CVE-2010-3765 Mozilla Multiple Products Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-26486 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2022-26485 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2019-11707 Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Type Confusion Exploited High 8.8

All Mozilla Firefox vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-8w77-hpx9-8fm3, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-10941.