CVE-2024-8897

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-09-17 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-601

Description

Under certain conditions, an attacker with the ability to redirect users to a malicious site via an open redirect on a trusted site, may be able to spoof the address bar contents. This can lead to a malicious site to appear to have the same URL as the trusted site. *This bug only affects Firefox for Android. Other versions of Firefox are unaffected.* This vulnerability affects Firefox for Android < 130.0.1.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: before 130.0.1 — fixed in 130.0.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Mozilla Firefox 130.0.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1862537
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-45/

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