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Mozilla Firefox < 102.0

critical Nessus Plugin ID 162603

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Synopsis

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

Description

The version of Firefox installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 102.0. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2022-24 advisory.

 - Mozilla developers Bryce Seager van Dyk and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported potential vulnerabilities present in Firefox 101. 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-2022-34485)

 - A malicious website that could create a popup could have resized the popup to overlay the address bar with its own content, resulting in potential user confusion or spoofing attacks. This bug only affects Firefox for Linux. Other operating systems are unaffected. (CVE-2022-34479)

 - Session history navigations may have led to a use-after-free and potentially exploitable crash.
 (CVE-2022-34470)

 - An iframe that was not permitted to run scripts could do so if the user clicked on a <code>javascript:</code> link. (CVE-2022-34468)

 - An attacker who could have convinced a user to drag and drop an image to a filesystem could have manipulated the resulting filename to contain an executable extension, and by extension potentially tricked the user into executing malicious code. While very similar, this is a separate issue from CVE-2022-34483. (CVE-2022-34482)

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

Solution

Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox version 102.0 or later.

See Also

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-24/

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 162603

File Name: macos_firefox_102_0.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 6/29/2022

Updated: 11/18/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, 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-2022-34485

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: cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Mozilla Firefox

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/28/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/28/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-2200, CVE-2022-34468, CVE-2022-34469, CVE-2022-34470, CVE-2022-34471, CVE-2022-34472, CVE-2022-34473, CVE-2022-34474, CVE-2022-34475, CVE-2022-34476, CVE-2022-34477, CVE-2022-34478, CVE-2022-34479, CVE-2022-34480, CVE-2022-34481, CVE-2022-34482, CVE-2022-34483, CVE-2022-34484, CVE-2022-34485

IAVA: 2022-A-0256-S, 2022-A-2056-S