7.5

CVE-2024-5702: mozilla firefox Use After Free

CVSS: 7.5v3.1HighAnalyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2024-5702DEBIAN-CVE-2024-5702CGA-2v52-5rq8-pmmq
Published 11-06-2024Last modified 12-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-5702 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Use After Free vulnerability in mozilla firefox. EPSS estimates a 0.86% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 57.9% 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
0.86%
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 31 · Related 9

Timeline

  1. 11-06-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 12-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Memory corruption in the networking stack could have led to a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 125, Firefox ESR < 115.12, and Thunderbird < 115.12.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 5 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.86%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

58%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.86% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
0.86%

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

Mozilla3 products
Debian2 products
  • firefox-esr< 115.12.0esr-1~deb12u1 | < 115.12.0esr-1
  • thunderbird< 1:115.12.0-1~deb12u1 | < 1:115.12.0-1
Ubuntu2 products
  • firefox< 125.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.2
  • thunderbird< 1:115.12.0+build3-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 | < 1:115.12.0+build3-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
Chainguard1 product
  • firefox-esr< 115.12.0-r0

4 vendors · 8 products

References

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