CVE-2024-2605

Publication date 19 March 2024

Last updated 30 May 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

An attacker could have leveraged the Windows Error Reporter to run arbitrary code on the system escaping the sandbox. *Note:* This issue only affected Windows operating systems. Other operating systems are unaffected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 124, Firefox ESR < 115.9, and Thunderbird < 115.9.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
firefox	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not in release
thunderbird	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needed
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not in release
mozjs38	24.04 LTS noble	Not in release
	23.10 mantic	Not in release
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not in release
	20.04 LTS focal	Not in release
	18.04 LTS bionic	Ignored
mozjs52	24.04 LTS noble	Not in release
	23.10 mantic	Not in release
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not in release
	20.04 LTS focal	Ignored
	18.04 LTS bionic	Ignored
mozjs68	24.04 LTS noble	Not in release
	23.10 mantic	Not in release
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not in release
	20.04 LTS focal	Ignored
mozjs78	24.04 LTS noble	Not in release
	23.10 mantic	Not in release
	22.04 LTS jammy	Ignored
	20.04 LTS focal	Not in release
mozjs91	24.04 LTS noble	Not in release
	23.10 mantic	Not in release
	22.04 LTS jammy	Ignored
	20.04 LTS focal	Not in release
mozjs102	24.04 LTS noble	Ignored
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.04 LTS jammy	Ignored
	20.04 LTS focal	Not in release

Notes

tyhicks

mozjs contains a copy of the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine

mdeslaur

starting with Ubuntu 22.04, the firefox package is just a script that installs the Firefox snap

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.9 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N