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Mozilla Firefox < 111.0

high Nessus Plugin ID 172514

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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 installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 111.0. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2023-09 advisory.

 - The fullscreen notification could have been hidden on Firefox for Android by using download popups, resulting in potential user confusion or spoofing attacks. This bug only affects Firefox for Android.
 Other operating systems are unaffected. (CVE-2023-28159)

 - By displaying a prompt with a long description, the fullscreen notification could have been hidden, resulting in potential user confusion or spoofing attacks. This bug only affects Firefox for Android.
 Other operating systems are unaffected. (CVE-2023-25748)

 - Android applications with unpatched vulnerabilities can be launched from a browser using Intents, exposing users to these vulnerabilities. Firefox will now confirm with users that they want to launch an external application before doing so. This bug only affects Firefox for Android. Other versions of Firefox are unaffected. (CVE-2023-25749)

 - Under certain circumstances, a ServiceWorker's offline cache may have leaked to the file system when using private browsing mode. (CVE-2023-25750)

 - Sometimes, when invalidating JIT code while following an iterator, the newly generated code could be overwritten incorrectly. This could lead to a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2023-25751)

 - When following a redirect to a publicly accessible web extension file, the URL may have been translated to the actual local path, leaking potentially sensitive information. (CVE-2023-28160)

 - Dragging a URL from a cross-origin iframe that was removed during the drag could have lead to user confusion and website spoofing attacks. (CVE-2023-28164)

 - If temporary one-time permissions, such as the ability to use the Camera, were granted to a document loaded using a file: URL, that permission persisted in that tab for all other documents loaded from a file: URL. This is potentially dangerous if the local files came from different sources, such as in a download directory. (CVE-2023-28161)

 - While implementing on AudioWorklets, some code may have casted one type to another, invalid, dynamic type.
 This could have lead to a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2023-28162)

 - When accessing throttled streams, the count of available bytes needed to be checked in the calling function to be within bounds. This may have lead future code to be incorrect and vulnerable.
 (CVE-2023-25752)

 - When downloading files through the Save As dialog on Windows with suggested filenames containing environment variable names, Windows would have resolved those in the context of the current user. This bug only affects Firefox on Windows. Other versions of Firefox are unaffected. (CVE-2023-28163)

 - Mozilla developers Timothy Nikkel, Andrew McCreight, and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 110 and Firefox ESR 102.8. 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-2023-28176)

 - Mozilla developers and community members Calixte Denizet, Gabriele Svelto, Andrew McCreight, and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 110. 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-2023-28177)

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

Solution

Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox version 111.0 or later.

See Also

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2023-09/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 172514

File Name: macos_firefox_111_0.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 3/14/2023

Updated: 8/30/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-28177

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

Required KB Items: MacOSX/Firefox/Installed

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/14/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/14/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-25748, CVE-2023-25749, CVE-2023-25750, CVE-2023-25751, CVE-2023-25752, CVE-2023-28159, CVE-2023-28160, CVE-2023-28161, CVE-2023-28162, CVE-2023-28163, CVE-2023-28164, CVE-2023-28176, CVE-2023-28177

IAVA: 2023-A-0132-S