Mozilla Firefox Vulnerability: Tricked into Saving Files with Disallowed Extensions

CVE-2024-5692
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Key Information

Vendor
Mozilla
Status
Firefox
Firefox Esr
Thunderbird
Vendor
CVE Published:
11 June 2024

Summary

On Windows 10, when using the 'Save As' functionality, an attacker could have tricked the browser into saving the file with a disallowed extension such as `.url` by including an invalid character in the extension. *Note:* This issue only affected Windows operating systems. Other operating systems are unaffected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 127, Firefox ESR < 115.12, and Thunderbird < 115.12.

Affected Version(s)

Firefox < 127

Firefox ESR < 115.12

Thunderbird < 115.12

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published.

  • Vulnerability Reserved.

Collectors

NVD DatabaseMitre Database

Credit

Raphael Shaniyazov
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