The version of Firefox installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 98.0. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2022-10 advisory.

  - When resizing a popup after requesting fullscreen access, the popup would not display the fullscreen     notification. (CVE-2022-26383)

  - If an attacker could control the contents of an iframe sandboxed with <code>allow-popups</code> but not     <code>allow-scripts</code>, they were able to craft a link that, when clicked, would lead to JavaScript     execution in violation of the sandbox. (CVE-2022-26384)

  - When installing an add-on, Firefox verified the signature before prompting the user; but while the user     was confirming the prompt, the underlying add-on file could have been modified and Firefox would not have     noticed. (CVE-2022-26387)

  - An attacker could have caused a use-after-free by forcing a text reflow in an SVG object leading to a     potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2022-26381)

  - While the text displayed in Autofill tooltips cannot be directly read by JavaScript, the text was rendered     using page fonts. Side-channel attacks on the text by using specially crafted fonts could have lead to     this text being inferred by the webpage. (CVE-2022-26382)

  - In unusual circumstances, an individual thread may outlive the thread's manager during shutdown.  This     could have led to a use-after-free causing a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2022-26385)

  - Mozilla developers Kershaw Chang, Ryan VanderMeulen, and Randell Jesup reported memory safety bugs present     in Firefox 97. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough     effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-0843)

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

Detections

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Mozilla Firefox < 98.0

critical Nessus Plugin ID 158694

Version 1.6