vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2024-5690: Mozilla: External protocol handlers leaked by timing attack (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jun 11, 2024
Added
Jun 18, 2024
Modified
Oct 13, 2025

Description

By monitoring the time certain operations take, an attacker could have guessed which external protocol handlers were functional on a user's system. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 127, Firefox ESR < 115.12, and Thunderbird < 115.12.

Solutions

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