What is CVE-2024-3865?

CVE-2024-3865 is a high-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 8.1/10. Published 2024-04-16.

How severe is CVE-2024-3865?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.1 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Mozilla Firefox

CVE-2024-3865

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 124. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 125.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2024-04-16 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.1 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.005 (39.7th percentile), scored 2026-10-04.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 40th percentile — 39.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.005 · newest: 0.005 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox — versions unspecified

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi (Issue Tracking)
www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-18/ (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-3865?: CVE-2024-3865 is a high-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 8.1/10. Published 2024-04-16.
How severe is CVE-2024-3865?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.1 out of 10.