CVE-2023-4579

low

Description

Search queries in the default search engine could appear to have been the currently navigated URL if the search query itself was a well formed URL. This could have led to a site spoofing another if it had been maliciously set as the default search engine. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 117.

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-34/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-10

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1842766

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-09-11

Updated: 2024-01-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.6

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

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 3.1

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

Severity: Low