CVE-2024-11696

MEDIUM

Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird - Signature Validation Bypass via Exception Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The application failed to account for exceptions thrown by the `loadManifestFromFile` method during add-on signature verification. This flaw, triggered by an invalid or unsupported extension manifest, could have caused runtime errors that disrupted the signature validation process. As a result, the enforcement of signature validation for unrelated add-ons may have been bypassed. Signature validation in this context is used to ensure that third-party applications on the user's computer have not tampered with the user's extensions, limiting the impact of this issue. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 133, Firefox ESR < 128.5, Thunderbird < 133, and Thunderbird < 128.5.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.4
EPSS 0.0006
EPSS Percentile 17.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-347
Status published
Products (3)
mozilla/firefox < 128.5.0
mozilla/firefox < 133.0
mozilla/thunderbird < 128.5.0
Published Nov 26, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026