CVE-2024-6601 — Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-367 — Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race ConditionCWE-281 — Improper Preservation of Permissions15 documents9 sources
Severity
4.7MEDIUMNVD
OSV6.3
EPSS
0.1%
top 70.33%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Mozilla FirefoxMozilla Firefox ESRMozilla Thunderbird
Timeline
PublishedJul 9
Latest updateJul 22

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:LExploitability: 1.2 | Impact: 3.4

Affected Packages8 packages

▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified — 128
▶NVDmozilla/firefox< 128.0
▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefox_esrunspecified — 115.13
▶CVEListV5mozilla/thunderbirdunspecified — 115.13+1
▶NVDmozilla/thunderbird< 128.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

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OSV
thunderbird vulnerabilities↗2024-07-22
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OSV
firefox vulnerabilities↗2024-07-10
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CVEList
Race condition in permission assignment↗2024-07-09
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GHSA
GHSA-rjwc-235r-8986: A race condition could lead to a cross-origin container obtaining permissions of the top-level origin↗2024-07-09
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OSV
CVE-2024-6601: A race condition could lead to a cross-origin container obtaining permissions of the top-level origin↗2024-07-09
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities↗2024-07-22
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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2024-07-10
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Microsoft
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 Thunder↗2024-07-09
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Red Hat
Mozilla: Race condition in permission assignment↗2024-07-09
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Debian
CVE-2024-6601: firefox - A race condition could lead to a cross-origin container obtaining permissions of...↗2024
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CVE-2024-6601 — Mozilla Firefox vulnerability | cvebase