The version of Firefox ESR installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 102.7. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2023-02 advisory.

  - An out of date library (libusrsctp) contained vulnerabilities that could potentially be exploited.
    (CVE-2022-46871)

  - Due to the Firefox GTK wrapper code's use of text/plain for drag data and GTK treating all text/plain     MIMEs containing file URLs as being dragged a website could arbitrarily read a file via a call to     <code>DataTransfer.setData</code>. (CVE-2023-23598)

  - When copying a network request from the developer tools panel as a curl command the output was not being     properly sanitized and could allow arbitrary commands to be hidden within. (CVE-2023-23599)

  - Navigations were being allowed when dragging a URL from a cross-origin iframe into the same tab which     could lead to website spoofing attacks (CVE-2023-23601)

  - A mishandled security check when creating a WebSocket in a WebWorker caused the Content Security Policy     connect-src header to be ignored. This could lead to connections to restricted origins from inside     WebWorkers. (CVE-2023-23602)

  - By confusing the browser, the fullscreen notification could have been delayed or suppressed, resulting in     potential user confusion or spoofing attacks. (CVE-2022-46877)

  - Regular expressions used to filter out forbidden properties and values from style directives in calls to     <code>console.log</code> weren't accounting for external URLs. Data could then be potentially exfiltrated     from the browser. (CVE-2023-23603)

  - Mozilla developers and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 108 and     Firefox ESR 102.6. 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-2023-23605)

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

Detections

Analytics

Mozilla Firefox ESR < 102.7

high Nessus Plugin ID 170101

Version 1.4

Version 1.3

Version 1.1

Version 1.0

Version 1.4 Oct 24, 2023, 4:27 PM CVSSv2 score source (changed from "CVE-2022-46871" to "CVE-2023-23605") Plugin Feed: 202310241627
Version 1.3 Feb 16, 2023, 6:11 PM IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202302161811
Version 1.1 Jan 20, 2023, 6:02 PM IAVM reference STIG Severity (set to "I") Plugin Feed: 202301201802
Version 1.0 Jan 17, 2023, 8:25 PM New Plugin Feed: 202301172025