The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5954-1 advisory.

    Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked into opening a specially     crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, obtain     sensitive information across domains, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-25750, CVE-2023-25752,     CVE-2023-28162, CVE-2023-28176, CVE-2023-28177)

    Lukas Bernhard discovered that Firefox did not properly manage memory when invalidating JIT code while     following an iterator. An attacker could potentially exploits this issue to cause a denial of service.
    (CVE-2023-25751)

    Rob Wu discovered that Firefox did not properly manage the URLs when following a redirect to a publicly     accessible web extension file. An attacker could potentially exploits this to obtain sensitive     information. (CVE-2023-28160)

    Luan Herrera discovered that Firefox did not properly manage cross-origin iframe when dragging a URL. An     attacker could potentially exploit this issue to perform spoofing attacks. (CVE-2023-28164)

    Khiem Tran discovered that Firefox did not properly manage one-time permissions granted to a document     loaded using a file: URL. An attacker could potentially exploit this issue to use granted one-time     permissions on the local files came from different sources. (CVE-2023-28161)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

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

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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Firefox vulnerabilities (USN-5954-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 172575

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Version 1.6 Aug 28, 2024, 7:43 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202408281943
Version 1.5 Oct 16, 2023, 9:38 PM Detection Plugin Feed: 202310162138
Version 1.4 Aug 30, 2023, 4:14 PM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" changed from 7.5 to 10.0. "CVSSv3 score" changed from 9.8 to 8.8. "CVSSv3 vector" changed from "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H" to "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H". "CVSSv2 vector" changed from "CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P" to "CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C") CVSSv2 score source (changed from "CVE-2023-28176" to "CVE-2023-28177") CVSSv3 score source (set to "CVE-2023-28177") Plugin Feed: 202308301614
Version 1.4 Oct 16, 2023, 7:25 PM Detection Plugin Feed: 202310161925
Version 1.3 Apr 13, 2023, 7:01 PM IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202304131901
Version 1.2 Mar 16, 2023, 10:11 PM STIG Severity (set to "I") IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202303162211
Version 1.1 Mar 16, 2023, 12:00 AM Regenerated based on advisory update Plugin Feed: 202303160000
Version 1.0 Mar 15, 2023, 6:09 PM New Plugin Feed: 202303151809