RHEL 4 : firefox (Unpatched Vulnerability)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 200017

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat 4 host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities that will not be patched.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

- Mozilla: XSS with Drag and Drop and Javascript: URL (MFSA 2012-13) (CVE-2012-0455)

- Mozilla: SVG issues found with Address Sanitizer (MFSA 2012-14) (CVE-2012-0457)

- Mozilla Firefox before 4 cannot properly restrict modifications to cookies established in HTTPS sessions, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to overwrite or delete arbitrary cookies via a Set-Cookie header in an HTTP response, related to lack of the HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) includeSubDomains feature, aka a cookie forcing issue. (CVE-2008-7293)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

Solution

The vendor has acknowledged the vulnerabilities but no solution has been provided. Refer to the vendor for remediation guidance.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?0136bc55

http://www.nessus.org/u?0fd036b2

http://www.nessus.org/u?155a4b65

http://www.nessus.org/u?2c329a33

http://www.nessus.org/u?2f037a11

http://www.nessus.org/u?3a7e3e79

http://www.nessus.org/u?443af80c

http://www.nessus.org/u?66887bd5

http://www.nessus.org/u?6c5e7fea

http://www.nessus.org/u?74862a3f

http://www.nessus.org/u?83e7037f

http://www.nessus.org/u?8745a918

http://www.nessus.org/u?89d67ae0

http://www.nessus.org/u?a3946585

http://www.nessus.org/u?b9f00b2a

http://www.nessus.org/u?c09009e9

http://www.nessus.org/u?ced1ba26

http://www.nessus.org/u?eaf0c5aa

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 200017

File Name: redhat_unpatched_firefox-rhel4.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/3/2024

Updated: 12/6/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-0457

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-0455

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:firefox, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/24/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-7293, CVE-2012-0455, CVE-2012-0456, CVE-2012-0457, CVE-2012-0458, CVE-2012-0461, CVE-2012-0462, CVE-2012-0464

IAVA: 2024-A-0641-S, 2024-A-0663-S