CVE-2024-11696

The application failed to account for exceptions thrown by the `loadManifestFromFile` method during add-on signature verification

Medium · published November 26, 2024

CVSS v3.1
5.4
EPSS
0%
Percentile
26.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.4 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00343 · 26.5th percentile
Published
2024-11-26T13:33Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 26 NOV 13:33Z
    The application failed to account for exceptions thrown by the `loadManifestFromFile` method during add-on signature verification
    cvelistv5