CVE-2024-29944

2024-03-2200:00:00

ubuntu.com

cve-2024-29944

desktop firefox

web security

javascript engine

ubuntu 22.04

6.2 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.5%

JSON

An attacker was able to inject an event handler into a privileged object
that would allow arbitrary JavaScript execution in the parent process.
Note: This vulnerability affects Desktop Firefox only, it does not affect
mobile versions of Firefox. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 124.0.1
and Firefox ESR < 115.9.1.

Notes

Author	Note
tyhicks	mozjs contains a copy of the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine
mdeslaur	starting with Ubuntu 22.04, the firefox package is just a script that installs the Firefox snap

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu20.04noarchfirefox< 124.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1UNKNOWN
ubuntu22.04noarchmozjs102< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu23.10noarchmozjs102< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu24.04noarchmozjs102< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu18.04noarchmozjs38< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu18.04noarchmozjs52< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu20.04noarchmozjs52< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu20.04noarchmozjs68< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu22.04noarchmozjs78< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu22.04noarchmozjs91< anyUNKNOWN

OS	Version	Architecture	Package	Version	Filename
ubuntu	20.04	noarch	firefox	< 124.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	22.04	noarch	mozjs102	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	23.10	noarch	mozjs102	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	24.04	noarch	mozjs102	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	18.04	noarch	mozjs38	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	18.04	noarch	mozjs52	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	20.04	noarch	mozjs52	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	20.04	noarch	mozjs68	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	22.04	noarch	mozjs78	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	22.04	noarch	mozjs91	< any	UNKNOWN