Mozilla Firefox ESR < 102.1

high Nessus Plugin ID 163662

Synopsis

A web browser installed on the remote Windows host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

The version of Firefox ESR installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 102.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2022-30 advisory.

- When combining CSS properties for overflow and transform, the mouse cursor could interact with different coordinates than displayed. (CVE-2022-36319)

- When visiting directory listings for `chrome://` URLs as source text, some parameters were reflected.
(CVE-2022-36318)

- When opening a Windows shortcut from the local filesystem, an attacker could supply a remote path that would lead to unexpected network requests from the operating system. This bug only affects Firefox for Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected. (CVE-2022-36314)

- Mozilla developers and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 102. 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-2022-2505)

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 ESR version 102.1 or later.

See Also

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-30/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 163662

File Name: mozilla_firefox_102_1_esr.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 8/1/2022

Updated: 1/6/2023

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: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-2505

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox_esr

Required KB Items: Mozilla/Firefox/Version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/26/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/26/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-2505, CVE-2022-36314, CVE-2022-36318, CVE-2022-36319