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Mozilla Firefox ESR < 78.6.1

high Nessus Plugin ID 144769

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Synopsis

A web browser installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is affected by a vulnerability.

Description

The version of Firefox ESR installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 78.6.1. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the mfsa2021-01 advisory.

 - A malicious peer could have modified a COOKIE-ECHO chunk in a SCTP packet in a way that potentially resulted in a use-after-free. We presume that with enough effort it could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-16044)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox ESR version 78.6.1 or later.

See Also

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-01/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 144769

File Name: macos_firefox_78_6_1_esr.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 1/6/2021

Updated: 8/12/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-16044

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox_esr

Required KB Items: MacOSX/Firefox/Version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/6/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/6/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-16044

IAVA: 2021-A-0005-S