CVE-2024-6601 Race condition in permission assignment

What is CVE-2024-6601?

CVE-2024-6601 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 9 Jul 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A race condition could lead to a cross-origin container obtaining permissions of the top-level origin. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 128, Firefox ESR < 115.13, Thunderbird < 115.13, and Thunderbird < 128.

Weakness: CWE-367

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-6601?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird.

How do I fix CVE-2024-6601?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2024-6601 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-6601 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 DEBIAN-CVE-2024-6601, GHSA-rjwc-235r-8986, OESA-2024-2319, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-6601.