CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-6605

Insecure Inherited Permissions

Published: Jul 09, 2024 | Modified: Aug 01, 2024
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

Firefox Android allowed immediate interaction with permission prompts. This could be used for tapjacking. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 128.

Weakness

A product defines a set of insecure permissions that are inherited by objects that are created by the program.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Thunderbird Ubuntu mantic *

Potential Mitigations

  • Compartmentalize the system to have “safe” areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area.
  • Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.

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