The version of Firefox installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 106.0. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2022-44 advisory.

  - Mozilla developers Timothy Nikkel, Ashley Hale, and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs     present in Firefox 105. 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-2022-46885)

  - A same-origin policy violation could have allowed the theft of cross-origin URL entries, leaking the     result of a redirect, via <code>performance.getEntries()</code>. (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. (CVE-2022-42928)

  - An optimization in WebGL was incorrect in some cases, and could have led to memory corruption and a     potentially exploitable crash.<br />Note: This advisory was added on December 13th, 2022 after we better     understood the impact of the issue. The fix was included in the original release of Firefox 106.
    (CVE-2022-46881)

  - If a website called <code>window.print()</code> 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.
    (CVE-2022-42929)

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

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - A potential use-after-free vulnerability existed in SVG Images if the Refresh Driver was destroyed at an     inopportune time. This could have lead to memory corruption or a potentially exploitable crash. *Note*:
    This advisory was added on December 13th, 2022 after discovering it was inadvertently left out of the     original advisory. The fix was included in the original release of Firefox 106. This vulnerability affects     Firefox < 106. (CVE-2022-46884)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The version of Firefox installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 106.0. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2022-44 advisory.

  - Mozilla developers Timothy Nikkel, Ashley Hale, and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs     present in Firefox 105. 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-2022-46885)

  - A same-origin policy violation could have allowed the theft of cross-origin URL entries, leaking the     result of a redirect, via <code>performance.getEntries()</code>. (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. (CVE-2022-42928)

  - An optimization in WebGL was incorrect in some cases, and could have led to memory corruption and a     potentially exploitable crash.<br />Note: This advisory was added on December 13th, 2022 after we better     understood the impact of the issue. The fix was included in the original release of Firefox 106.
    (CVE-2022-46881)

  - If a website called <code>window.print()</code> 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.
    (CVE-2022-42929)

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

The version of firefox installed on the remote host is prior to 115.4.0-1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2FIREFOX-2023-017 advisory.

    A potential use-after-free vulnerability existed in SVG Images if the Refresh Driver was destroyed at an     inopportune time.  This could have lead to memory corruption or a potentially exploitable crash.*Note*:
    This advisory was added on December 13th, 2022 after discovering it was inadvertently left out of the     original advisory. The fix was included in the original release of Firefox 106. This vulnerability affects     Firefox < 106. (CVE-2022-46884)

    When Firefox is configured to block storage of all cookies, it was still possible to store data in     localstorage by using an iframe with a source of 'about:blank'. This could have led to malicious websites     storing tracking data without permission. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 115. (CVE-2023-3482)

    Insufficient validation in the Drag and Drop API in conjunction with social engineering, may have allowed     an attacker to trick end-users into creating a shortcut to local system files.  This could have been     leveraged to execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 115. (CVE-2023-37203)

    A website could have obscured the fullscreen notification by using an option element by introducing lag     via an expensive computational function. This could have led to user confusion and possible spoofing     attacks. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 115. (CVE-2023-37204)

    The use of RTL Arabic characters in the address bar may have allowed for URL spoofing. This vulnerability     affects Firefox < 115. (CVE-2023-37205)

    Uploading files which contain symlinks may have allowed an attacker to trick a user into submitting     sensitive data to a malicious website. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 115. (CVE-2023-37206)

    A use-after-free condition existed in `NotifyOnHistoryReload` where a `LoadingSessionHistoryEntry` object     was freed and a reference to that object remained.  This resulted in a potentially exploitable condition     when the reference to that object was later reused. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 115.
    (CVE-2023-37209)

    A website could prevent a user from exiting full-screen mode via alert and prompt calls.  This could lead     to user confusion and possible spoofing attacks. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 115.
    (CVE-2023-37210)

    Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 114. 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 < 115. (CVE-2023-37212)

    The Tungstenite crate through 0.20.0 for Rust allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service     (minutes of CPU consumption) via an excessive length of an HTTP header in a client handshake. The length     affects both how many times a parse is attempted (e.g., thousands of times) and the average amount of data     for each parse attempt (e.g., millions of bytes). (CVE-2023-43669)

    A compromised content process could have provided malicious data to `FilterNodeD2D1` resulting in an out-     of-bounds write, leading to a potentially exploitable crash in a privileged process. This vulnerability     affects Firefox < 118, Firefox ESR < 115.3, and Thunderbird < 115.3. (CVE-2023-5168)

    A compromised content process could have provided malicious data in a `PathRecording` resulting in an out-     of-bounds write, leading to a potentially exploitable crash in a privileged process. This vulnerability     affects Firefox < 118, Firefox ESR < 115.3, and Thunderbird < 115.3. (CVE-2023-5169)

    During Ion compilation, a Garbage Collection could have resulted in a use-after-free condition, allowing     an attacker to write two NUL bytes, and cause a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects     Firefox < 118, Firefox ESR < 115.3, and Thunderbird < 115.3. (CVE-2023-5171)

    Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 117, Firefox ESR 115.2, and Thunderbird 115.2. 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 < 118, Firefox ESR < 115.3, and     Thunderbird < 115.3. (CVE-2023-5176)

    The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:

    It was possible for certain browser prompts and dialogs to be activated or dismissed unintentionally by     the user due to an insufficient activation-delay. (CVE-2023-5721)

    The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:

    Drivers are not always robust to extremely large draw calls and in some cases this scenario could have led     to a crash. (CVE-2023-5724)

    The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:

    A malicious installed WebExtension could open arbitrary URLs, which under the right circumstance could be     leveraged to collect sensitive user data. (CVE-2023-5725)

    The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:

    During garbage collection extra operations were performed on a object that should not be. This could have     led to a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2023-5728)

    The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:

    Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 118, Firefox ESR 115.3, and Thunderbird 115.3. 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. (CVE-2023-5730)

    The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:

    An attacker could have created a malicious link using bidirectional characters to spoof the location in     the address bar when visited. (CVE-2023-5732)

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

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
166209	Mozilla Firefox < 106.0	Nessus	Windows	10/18/2022	11/18/2025	high
244069	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-46884	Nessus	Misc.	8/6/2025	8/6/2025	high
239048	TencentOS Server 4: firefox (TSSA-2024:0159)	Nessus	Tencent Local Security Checks	6/16/2025	11/23/2025	critical
166208	Mozilla Firefox < 106.0	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	10/18/2022	11/18/2025	high
185928	Amazon Linux 2 : firefox (ALASFIREFOX-2023-017)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	11/16/2023	12/11/2024	critical

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