CVE-2023-25729

Description

Permission prompts for opening external schemes were only shown for <code>ContentPrincipals</code> resulting in extensions being able to open them without user interaction via <code>ExpandedPrincipals</code>. This could lead to further malicious actions such as downloading files or interacting with software already installed on the system. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 110, Thunderbird < 102.8, and Firefox ESR < 102.8.

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-07/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-06/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-05/

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1792138

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3