Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2024-1551
Set-Cookie response headers were being incorrectly honored in multipart HTTP responses. If an attacker could control the Content-Type response header, as well as control part of the response body, they could inject Set-Cookie response headers that would have been honored by the browser. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 123, Firefox ESR < 115.8, and Thunderbird < 115.8.
EPSS: 0.007 (51.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions unspecified
- Mozilla Firefox Esr — versions unspecified
- Mozilla Thunderbird — versions unspecified
- Debian Debian_linux — versions 10.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- security@mozilla.org (Exploit, Issue Tracking)
- security@mozilla.org (Vendor Advisory)
- security@mozilla.org (Vendor Advisory)
- security@mozilla.org (Vendor Advisory)
- security@mozilla.org (Third Party Advisory)
- security@mozilla.org (Third Party Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2024-1551?
- CVE-2024-1551 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, classified under Reliance on Cookies without Validation and Integrity Checking. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2024-02-20.
- How severe is CVE-2024-1551?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2024-1551 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.