7.5

CVE-2024-10466: mozilla firefox Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVSS: 7.5v3.1HighModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2024-10466DEBIAN-CVE-2024-10466CGA-p4gg-93rh-jwpv
Published 29-10-2024Last modified 03-11-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-10466 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in mozilla firefox. EPSS estimates a 0.81% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 56.1% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
30/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.81%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 33 · Related 12
DLA-3943-1DLA-3944-1DSA-5801-1DSA-5803-1MGASA-2024-0349MGASA-2024-0350

Timeline

  1. 29-10-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 03-11-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

By sending a specially crafted push message, a remote server could have hung the parent process, causing the browser to become unresponsive. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 132, Firefox ESR < 128.4, Thunderbird < 128.4, and Thunderbird < 132.

CVSS metrics

6 scores · 6 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.81%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

56%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.81% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.81%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Ubuntu9 products
  • firefox< 132.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
  • mozjs102All versions (No fix recorded)
  • mozjs115All versions (No fix recorded)
  • mozjs38All versions (No fix recorded)
  • mozjs52All versions (No fix recorded)
Mozilla3 products
  • firefox≥ unspecified, < 132 | < 128.4.0 | < 132.0
  • firefox_esr≥ unspecified, < 128.4
  • thunderbird≥ unspecified, < 128.4 | ≥ unspecified, < 132 | < 128.4.0 | ≥ 129.0, < 132.0
Chainguard2 products
  • firefox< 132.0-r0
  • firefox-esr< 128.4.0-r0
Debian2 products
  • firefox-esr< 128.4.0esr-1~deb12u1 | < 128.4.0esr-1
  • thunderbird< 1:128.4.0esr-1~deb12u1 | < 1:128.4.0esr-1
Wolfi1 product
  • firefox< 132.0-r0

5 vendors · 17 products

References

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