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FreeBSD : Mozilla -- insufficient character escaping (a59bd59e-2e85-11f0-a989-b42e991fc52e)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 235698

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

The version of FreeBSD installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the a59bd59e-2e85-11f0-a989-b42e991fc52e advisory.

 [email protected] reports:
 Due to insufficient escaping of special characters in the copy as cURL feature, an attacker could trick a user into using this command, potentially leading to local code execution on the user's system.

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

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-4089

http://www.nessus.org/u?ed9a2ed2

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 235698

File Name: freebsd_pkg_a59bd59e2e8511f0a989b42e991fc52e.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 5/11/2025

Updated: 5/11/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.6

Temporal Score: 2.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-4089

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:thunderbird, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:firefox

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/11/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/29/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-4089

IAVA: 2025-A-0307, 2025-A-0308