CVE-2024-5690

Mozilla: External protocol handlers leaked by timing attack

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

6.1

CVSS 3.1

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Published · June 11, 2024

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:

By monitoring the time certain operations take, an attacker could have guessed which external protocol handlers were functional on a user's system.

Statement

Red Hat Product Security rates the severity of this flaw as determined by the Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 6.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CWE-385 · Covert Timing Channel