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FreeBSD : mozilla firefox -- protocol information guessing (aa1c7af9-570e-11ef-a43e-b42e991fc52e)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 205350

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

The version of FreeBSD installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the aa1c7af9-570e-11ef-a43e-b42e991fc52e advisory.

 [email protected] reports:
 By monitoring the time certain operations take, an attacker could have guessed which external protocol handlers were functional on a user's system. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 127, Firefox ESR < 115.12, and Thunderbird < 115.12.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the FreeBSD security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-5690

http://www.nessus.org/u?15c5fe6b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 205350

File Name: freebsd_pkg_aa1c7af9570e11efa43eb42e991fc52e.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 8/10/2024

Updated: 8/10/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-5690

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:firefox

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/10/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/11/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-5690

IAVA: 2024-A-0335-S