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Mozilla Firefox < 113.0

critical Nessus Plugin ID 175329

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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 113.0. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2023-16 advisory.

 - In multiple cases browser prompts could have been obscured by popups controlled by content. These could have led to potential user confusion and spoofing attacks. (CVE-2023-32205)

 - An out-of-bound read could have led to a crash in the RLBox Expat driver. (CVE-2023-32206)

 - A missing delay in popup notifications could have made it possible for an attacker to trick a user into granting permissions. (CVE-2023-32207)

 - Service workers could reveal script base URL due to dynamic <code>import()</code>. (CVE-2023-32208)

 - A maliciously crafted favicon could have led to an out of memory crash. (CVE-2023-32209)

 - Documents were incorrectly assuming an ordering of principal objects when ensuring we were loading an appropriately privileged principal. In certain circumstances it might have been possible to cause a document to be loaded with a higher privileged principal than intended. (CVE-2023-32210)

 - A type checking bug would have led to invalid code being compiled. (CVE-2023-32211)

 - An attacker could have positioned a <code>datalist</code> element to obscure the address bar.
 (CVE-2023-32212)

 - When reading a file, an uninitialized value could have been used as read limit. (CVE-2023-32213)

 - Protocol handlers <code>ms-cxh</code> and <code>ms-cxh-full</code> could have been leveraged to trigger a denial of service. Note: This attack only affects Windows. Other operating systems are not affected.
 (CVE-2023-32214)

 - Mozilla developers and community members Gabriele Svelto, Andrew Osmond, Emily McDonough, Sebastian Hengst, Andrew McCreight and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 112 and Firefox ESR 102.10. 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-2023-32215)

 - Mozilla developers and community members Ronald Crane, Andrew McCreight, Randell Jesup and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 112. 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-2023-32216)

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 113.0 or later.

See Also

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2023-16/

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 175329

File Name: macos_firefox_113_0.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 5/9/2023

Updated: 7/7/2023

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-2023-32216

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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: 5/9/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/9/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-32205, CVE-2023-32206, CVE-2023-32207, CVE-2023-32208, CVE-2023-32209, CVE-2023-32210, CVE-2023-32211, CVE-2023-32212, CVE-2023-32213, CVE-2023-32214, CVE-2023-32215, CVE-2023-32216

IAVA: 2023-A-0242-S