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Mozilla Firefox < 78.0.2

medium Nessus Plugin ID 138444

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Synopsis

A web browser installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is affected by a vulnerability.

Description

The version of Firefox installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 78.0.2. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the mfsa2020-28 advisory.

 - Using object or embed tags, it was possible to frame other websites, even if they disallowed framing using the X-Frame-Options header.Note: This issue is pending a CVE assignment and will be updated when one is available. (MFSA-2020-0003)

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

Solution

Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox version 78.0.2 or later.

See Also

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2020-28/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 138444

File Name: macos_firefox_78_0_2.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 7/14/2020

Updated: 5/1/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-15648

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:/a:mozilla:firefox

Required KB Items: MacOSX/Firefox/Installed

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/8/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/8/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-15648

MFSA: 2020-28