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FreeBSD : mozilla products -- spoofing attack (d0ac9a17-5e68-11ef-b8cc-b42e991fc52e)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 205873

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

The version of FreeBSD installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the d0ac9a17-5e68-11ef-b8cc-b42e991fc52e advisory.

 [email protected] reports:
 Select options could obscure the fullscreen notification dialog.
 This could be used by a malicious site to perform a spoofing attack.
 This vulnerability affects Firefox < 129, Firefox ESR < 128.1, and Thunderbird < 128.1.

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

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-7518

http://www.nessus.org/u?7b5c6d5e

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 205873

File Name: freebsd_pkg_d0ac9a175e6811efb8ccb42e991fc52e.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Published: 8/20/2024

Updated: 9/6/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-7518

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:firefox

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/19/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/6/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-7518

IAVA: 2024-A-0465-S