CVE-2023-25729

Public on 2023-02-17
Modified on 2024-02-07
Description
The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:

Permission prompts for opening external schemes were only shown for `ContentPrincipals` resulting in extensions being able to open them without user interaction via `ExpandedPrincipals`. This could lead to further malicious actions such as downloading files or interacting with software already installed on the system.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
6.1
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 2 - Firefox Extra firefox 2023-08-21 ALAS2FIREFOX-2023-007 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2 - Core thunderbird 2023-03-02 ALAS2-2023-1983 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H