The version of firefox installed on the remote host is prior to 102.4.0-1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2FIREFOX-2023-010 advisory.

  - libexpat before 2.4.9 has a use-after-free in the doContent function in xmlparse.c. (CVE-2022-40674)

  - When injecting an HTML base element, some requests would ignore the CSP's base-uri settings and accept the     injected element's base instead. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 102.3, Thunderbird < 102.3, and     Firefox < 105. (CVE-2022-40956)

  - Inconsistent data in instruction and data cache when creating wasm code could lead to a potentially     exploitable crash.<br>*This bug only affects Firefox on ARM64 platforms.*. This vulnerability affects     Firefox ESR < 102.3, Thunderbird < 102.3, and Firefox < 105. (CVE-2022-40957)

  - By injecting a cookie with certain special characters, an attacker on a shared subdomain which is not a     secure context could set and thus overwrite cookies from a secure context, leading to session fixation and     other attacks. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 102.3, Thunderbird < 102.3, and Firefox < 105.
    (CVE-2022-40958)

  - During iframe navigation, certain pages did not have their FeaturePolicy fully initialized leading to a     bypass that leaked device permissions into untrusted subdocuments. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR     < 102.3, Thunderbird < 102.3, and Firefox < 105. (CVE-2022-40959)

  - Concurrent use of the URL parser with non-UTF-8 data was not thread-safe. This could lead to a use-after-     free causing a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 102.3, Thunderbird     < 102.3, and Firefox < 105. (CVE-2022-40960)

  - During startup, a graphics driver with an unexpected name could lead to a stack-buffer overflow causing a     potentially exploitable crash.<br>*This issue only affects Firefox for Android. Other operating systems     are not affected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 105. (CVE-2022-40961)

  - Mozilla developers Nika Layzell, Timothy Nikkel, Sebastian Hengst, Andreas Pehrson, and the Mozilla     Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 104 and Firefox ESR 102.2. 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. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 102.3, Thunderbird < 102.3, and     Firefox < 105. (CVE-2022-40962)

  - A same-origin policy violation could have allowed the theft of cross-origin URL entries, leaking the     result of a redirect, via `performance.getEntries()`. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 106, Firefox     ESR < 102.4, and Thunderbird < 102.4. (CVE-2022-42927)

  - Certain types of allocations were missing annotations that, if the Garbage Collector was in a specific     state, could have lead to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability     affects Firefox < 106, Firefox ESR < 102.4, and Thunderbird < 102.4. (CVE-2022-42928)

  - If a website called `window.print()` in a particular way, it could cause a denial of service of the     browser, which may persist beyond browser restart depending on the user's session restore settings. This     vulnerability affects Firefox < 106, Firefox ESR < 102.4, and Thunderbird < 102.4. (CVE-2022-42929)

  - Mozilla developers Ashley Hale and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox     105 and Firefox ESR 102.3. 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. This vulnerability     affects Firefox < 106, Firefox ESR < 102.4, and Thunderbird < 102.4. (CVE-2022-42932)

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

Detections

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Amazon Linux 2 : firefox (ALASFIREFOX-2023-010)

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