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SUSE SLED15: MozillaFirefox / MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream / etc (SUSE-SU-2022:1748-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 161389

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:1748-1 advisory.

 Firefox Extended Support Release 91.9.0 ESR (MFSA 2022-17)(bsc#1198970):

 - CVE-2022-29914: Fullscreen notification bypass using popups
 - CVE-2022-29909: Bypassing permission prompt in nested browsing contexts
 - CVE-2022-29916: Leaking browser history with CSS variables
 - CVE-2022-29911: iframe Sandbox bypass
 - CVE-2022-29912: Reader mode bypassed SameSite cookies
 - CVE-2022-29917: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 100 and Firefox ESR 91.9

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

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 affected packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1198970

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-29909

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-29911

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-29912

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-29914

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-29916

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-29917

http://www.nessus.org/u?0ba3f180

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 161389

File Name: suse_SU-2022-1748-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/20/2022

Updated: 6/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, tenable_cloud_security, tenable_self_hosted_container_security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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-2022-29917

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox-translations-common, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox-translations-other, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/19/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/3/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-29909, CVE-2022-29911, CVE-2022-29912, CVE-2022-29914, CVE-2022-29916, CVE-2022-29917

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:1748-1