CVE-2024-8897 Open redirect in Firefox for Android

What is CVE-2024-8897?

CVE-2024-8897 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 17 Sep 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

Under certain conditions, an attacker with the ability to redirect users to a malicious site via an open redirect on a trusted site, may be able to spoof the address bar contents. This can lead to a malicious site to appear to have the same URL as the trusted site. *This bug only affects Firefox for Android. Other versions of Firefox are unaffected.* This vulnerability affects Firefox for Android < 130.0.1.

Weakness: CWE-601

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-8897?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mozilla Firefox.

How do I fix CVE-2024-8897?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-8897 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2024-8897 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-8897 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2022-26485 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-hj65-9wfc-jmf4.