The version of Firefox installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 94.0. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2021-48 advisory.

  - The iframe sandbox rules were not correctly applied to XSLT stylesheets, allowing an iframe to bypass     restrictions such as executing scripts or navigating the top-level frame. (CVE-2021-38503)

  - When interacting with an HTML input element's file picker dialog with <code>webkitdirectory</code> set, a     use-after-free could have resulted, leading to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash.
    (CVE-2021-38504)

  - Microsoft introduced a new feature in Windows 10 known as Cloud Clipboard which, if enabled, will record     data copied to the clipboard to the cloud, and make it available on other computers in certain scenarios.
    Applications that wish to prevent copied data from being recorded in Cloud History must use specific     clipboard formats; and Firefox before versions 94 and ESR 91.3 did not implement them. This could have     caused sensitive data to be recorded to a user's Microsoft account. This bug only affects Firefox for     Windows 10+ with Cloud Clipboard enabled. Other operating systems are unaffected. (CVE-2021-38505)

  - Through a series of navigations, Firefox could have entered fullscreen mode without notification or     warning to the user. This could lead to spoofing attacks on the browser UI including phishing.
    (CVE-2021-38506)

  - The Opportunistic Encryption feature of HTTP2 (RFC 8164) allows a connection to be transparently upgraded     to TLS while retaining the visual properties of an HTTP connection, including being same-origin with     unencrypted connections on port 80.  However, if a second encrypted port on the same IP address (e.g. port     8443) did not opt-in to opportunistic encryption; a network attacker could forward a connection from the     browser to port 443 to port 8443, causing the browser to treat the content of port 8443 as same-origin     with HTTP.  This was resolved by disabling the Opportunistic Encryption feature, which had low usage.
    (CVE-2021-38507)

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

Detections

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Mozilla Firefox < 94.0

critical Nessus Plugin ID 154820

Version 1.8