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Mozilla Firefox ESR < 78.7

high Nessus Plugin ID 145447

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Synopsis

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

Description

The version of Firefox ESR installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 78.7. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2021-04 advisory.

 - If a user clicked into a specifically crafted PDF, the PDF reader could be confused into leaking cross- origin information, when said information is served as chunked data. (CVE-2021-23953)

 - Using the new logical assignment operators in a JavaScript switch statement could have caused a type confusion, leading to a memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2021-23954)

 - When a HTTPS page was embedded in a HTTP page, and there was a service worker registered for the former, the service worker could have intercepted the request for the secure page despite the iframe not being a secure context due to the (insecure) framing. (CVE-2020-26976)

 - Performing garbage collection on re-declared JavaScript variables resulted in a user-after-poison, and a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2021-23960)

 - Mozilla developers Alexis Beingessner, Christian Holler, Andrew McCreight, Tyson Smith, Jon Coppeard, Andr Bargull, Jason Kratzer, Jesse Schwartzentruber, Steve Fink, Byron Campen reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 84 and Firefox ESR 78.6. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code.
 (CVE-2021-23964)

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 78.7 or later.

See Also

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-04/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 145447

File Name: macos_firefox_78_7_esr.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 1/26/2021

Updated: 3/5/2021

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-2021-23964

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: 1/26/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/15/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-26976, CVE-2021-23953, CVE-2021-23954, CVE-2021-23960, CVE-2021-23964

IAVA: 2021-A-0051-S