CVE-2023-25740 — Insufficiently Protected Credentials in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-522 — Insufficiently Protected Credentials5 documents5 sources
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 52.00%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Mozilla FirefoxDebian Firefox
Timeline
PublishedJun 2

Description

After downloading a Windows .scf script from the local filesystem, an attacker could supply a remote path that would lead to unexpected network requests from the operating system. This also had the potential to leak NTLM credentials to the resource.*This bug only affects Firefox for Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 110.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages4 packages

▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified — 110
▶NVDmozilla/firefox< 110.0
▶mozillamozilla/firefox

🔴Vulnerability Details

1
GHSA
GHSA-g67q-47ww-68wp: After downloading a Windows↗2023-06-02
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Red Hat
Mozilla: Opening local .scf files could cause unexpected network loads↗2023-02-14
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Debian
CVE-2023-25740: firefox - After downloading a Windows <code>.scf</code> script from the local filesystem, ...↗2023
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Mozilla
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2023-05: CVE-2023-25740↗
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