Mozilla Firefox < 124.0

critical Nessus Plugin ID 192244

Language:

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 124.0. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2024-12 advisory.

- An attacker could have leveraged the Windows Error Reporter to run arbitrary code on the system escaping the sandbox. Note: This issue only affected Windows operating systems. Other operating systems are unaffected. (CVE-2024-2605)

- Passing invalid data could have led to invalid wasm values being created, such as arbitrary integers turning into pointer values. (CVE-2024-2606)

- Return registers were overwritten which could have allowed an attacker to execute arbitrary code. Note:
This issue only affected Armv7-A systems. Other operating systems are unaffected. (CVE-2024-2607)

- <code>AppendEncodedAttributeValue(), ExtraSpaceNeededForAttrEncoding()</code> and <code>AppendEncodedCharacters()</code> could have experienced integer overflows, causing underallocation of an output buffer leading to an out of bounds write. (CVE-2024-2608)

- NSS was susceptible to a timing side-channel attack when performing RSA decryption. This attack could potentially allow an attacker to recover the private data. (CVE-2023-5388)

- The permission prompt input delay could have expired while the window is not in focus, which made the prompt vulnerable to clickjacking by malicious websites. (CVE-2024-2609)

- Using a markup injection an attacker could have stolen nonce values. This could have been used to bypass strict content security policies. (CVE-2024-2610)

- A missing delay on when pointer lock was used could have allowed a malicious page to trick a user into granting permissions. (CVE-2024-2611)

- If an attacker could find a way to trigger a particular code path in <code>SafeRefPtr</code>, it could have triggered a crash or potentially be leveraged to achieve code execution. (CVE-2024-2612)

- Data was not properly sanitized when decoding a QUIC ACK frame; this could have led to unrestricted memory consumption and a crash. (CVE-2024-2613)

- Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 123, Firefox ESR 115.8, and Thunderbird 115.8. 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-2024-2614)

- Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 123. 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-2024-2615)

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 124.0 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 192244

File Name: macos_firefox_124_0.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Family: MacOS X Local Security Checks

Published: 3/19/2024

Updated: 8/29/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-5388

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-2615

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox

Required KB Items: MacOSX/Firefox/Installed

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/19/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/19/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-5388, CVE-2024-2605, CVE-2024-2606, CVE-2024-2607, CVE-2024-2608, CVE-2024-2609, CVE-2024-2610, CVE-2024-2611, CVE-2024-2612, CVE-2024-2613, CVE-2024-2614, CVE-2024-2615

IAVA: 2024-A-0174-S, 2024-A-0245-S

Detections

Analytics