The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:0559 advisory.

    Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and     portability.

    This update upgrades Firefox to version 115.7.0 ESR.

    Security Fix(es):

    * Mozilla: Out of bounds write in ANGLE (CVE-2024-0741)

    * Mozilla: Failure to update user input timestamp (CVE-2024-0742)

    * Mozilla: Crash when listing printers on Linux (CVE-2024-0746)

    * Mozilla: Bypass of Content Security Policy when directive unsafe-inline was set (CVE-2024-0747)

    * Mozilla: Phishing site popup could show local origin in address bar (CVE-2024-0749)

    * Mozilla: Potential permissions request bypass via clickjacking (CVE-2024-0750)

    * Mozilla: Privilege escalation through devtools (CVE-2024-0751)

    * Mozilla: HSTS policy on subdomain could bypass policy of upper domain (CVE-2024-0753)

    * Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 122, Firefox ESR 115.7, and Thunderbird 115.7     (CVE-2024-0755)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Detections

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RHEL 8 : firefox (RHSA-2024:0559)

high Nessus Plugin ID 189816

Version 1.4

Version 1.3

Version 1.1

Version 1.0

Version 1.4 Nov 7, 2024, 5:29 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411071729
Version 1.3 Jun 4, 2024, 7:00 PM Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202406041900
Version 1.1 Feb 23, 2024, 12:38 PM IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202402231238
Version 1.0 Jan 30, 2024, 7:07 PM New Plugin Feed: 202401301907