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CVE-2023-28163

Publication date 2 June 2023

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

When downloading files through the Save As dialog on Windows with suggested filenames containing environment variable names, Windows would have resolved those in the context of the current user. <br>*This bug only affects Firefox on Windows. Other versions of Firefox are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 111, Firefox ESR < 102.9, and Thunderbird < 102.9.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
firefox 22.10 kinetic
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored
mozjs38 22.10 kinetic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
mozjs52 22.10 kinetic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
mozjs68 22.10 kinetic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
mozjs78 22.10 kinetic
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
mozjs91 22.10 kinetic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
thunderbird 22.10 kinetic Ignored
22.04 LTS jammy
Vulnerable
20.04 LTS focal
Vulnerable
18.04 LTS bionic Ignored
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored

Notes

tyhicks

mozjs contains a copy of the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine

mdeslaur

starting with Ubuntu 22.04, the firefox package is just a script that installs the Firefox snap

alexmurray

Only affects Firefox on Windows

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact High
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N