RHEL 8 : firefox (RHSA-2022:0513)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 158048

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for firefox.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:0513 advisory.

- Mozilla: Extensions could have bypassed permission confirmation during update (CVE-2022-22754)

- Mozilla: Drag and dropping an image could have resulted in the dropped object being an executable (CVE-2022-22756)

- Mozilla: Sandboxed iframes could have executed script if the parent appended elements (CVE-2022-22759)

- Mozilla: Cross-Origin responses could be distinguished between script and non-script content-types (CVE-2022-22760)

- Mozilla: frame-ancestors Content Security Policy directive was not enforced for framed extension pages (CVE-2022-22761)

- Mozilla: Script Execution during invalid object state (CVE-2022-22763)

- Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 97 and Firefox ESR 91.6 (CVE-2022-22764)

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

Solution

Update the RHEL firefox package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:0513.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 158048

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-0513.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 2/14/2022

Updated: 4/28/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-22764

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.6

Temporal Score: 8.6

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-22759

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:firefox

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/8/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-22754, CVE-2022-22756, CVE-2022-22759, CVE-2022-22760, CVE-2022-22761, CVE-2022-22763, CVE-2022-22764

CWE: 1021, 120, 829, 94

IAVA: 2022-A-0079-S

RHSA: 2022:0513

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