CVE-2024-5692 Information

Description

On Windows when using the ‘Save As’ functionality an attacker could have tricked the browser into saving the file with a disallowed extension such as .url by including an invalid character in the extension. Note: This issue only affected Windows operating systems. Other operating systems are unaffected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 127 and Firefox ESR < 115.12.

Reference

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1837514 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1891234 https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-25/ https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-26/ On Windows when using the ‘Save As’ functionality an attacker could have tricked the browser into saving the file with a disallowed extension such as .url by including an invalid character in the extension. Note: This issue only affected Windows operating systems. Other operating systems are unaffected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 127 and Firefox ESR < 115.12.

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