The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:4463 advisory.

    Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and     portability.

    This update upgrades Firefox to version 102.14.0 ESR.

    Security Fix(es):

    * Mozilla: Offscreen Canvas could have bypassed cross-origin restrictions (CVE-2023-4045)

    * Mozilla: Incorrect value used during WASM compilation (CVE-2023-4046)

    * Mozilla: Potential permissions request bypass via clickjacking (CVE-2023-4047)

    * Mozilla: Crash in DOMParser due to out-of-memory conditions (CVE-2023-4048)

    * Mozilla: Fix potential race conditions when releasing platform objects (CVE-2023-4049)

    * Mozilla: Stack buffer overflow in StorageManager (CVE-2023-4050)

    * Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 116, Firefox ESR 115.1, Firefox ESR 102.14, Thunderbird     115.1, and Thunderbird 102.14 (CVE-2023-4056)

    * Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 116, Firefox ESR 115.1, and Thunderbird 115.1     (CVE-2023-4057)

    * Mozilla: Cookie jar overflow caused unexpected cookie jar state (CVE-2023-4055)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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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RHEL 8 : firefox (RHSA-2023:4463)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 179321

Version 1.7

Version 1.6

Version 1.5

Version 1.4

Version 1.3

Version 1.3

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.0

Version 1.7 Nov 7, 2024, 8:25 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411072025
Version 1.6 Nov 5, 2024, 6:29 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: 202411051829
Version 1.5 Apr 28, 2024, 2:25 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202404281425
Version 1.4 Jan 26, 2024, 11:18 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202401262318
Version 1.3 Sep 1, 2023, 10:10 AM IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202309011010
Version 1.3 Jan 26, 2024, 9:00 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202401262100
Version 1.2 Aug 7, 2023, 3:37 PM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" changed from 7.8 to 10.0. "CVSSv3 score" changed from 7.5 to 9.8. "CVSSv3 vector" changed from "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H" to "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H". "CVSSv2 vector" changed from "CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N" to "CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C") CVSSv2 score source (changed from "CVE-2023-4045" to "CVE-2023-4057") Plugin Feed: 202308071537
Version 1.1 Aug 4, 2023, 2:09 PM IAVM reference STIG Severity (set to "I") Plugin Feed: 202308041409
Version 1.0 Aug 3, 2023, 8:37 PM New Plugin Feed: 202308032037