CVE-2023-29541

CWE-116CWE-434 — Unrestricted File Upload11 documents8 sources
Severity
8.8HIGH
EPSS
0.2%
top 57.94%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
6
Mozilla FirefoxMozilla Firefox ESRMozilla Firefox FOR Android+3 more
Timeline
PublishedJun 2

Description

Firefox did not properly handle downloads of files ending in .desktop, which can be interpreted to run attacker-controlled commands. *This bug only affects Firefox for Linux on certain Distributions. Other operating systems are unaffected, and Mozilla is unable to enumerate all affected Linux Distributions.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 112, Focus for Android < 112, Firefox ESR < 102.10, Firefox for Android < 112, and Thunderbird < 102.10.

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 Packages11 packages

▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefox_for_androidunspecified — 112
▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified — 112
▶NVDmozilla/firefox< 112.0
▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefox_esrunspecified — 102.10
▶NVDmozilla/firefox_esr< 102.10

🔴Vulnerability Details

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OSV
CVE-2023-29541: Firefox did not properly handle downloads of files ending in↗2023-06-02
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CVEList
CVE-2023-29541: Firefox did not properly handle downloads of files ending in↗2023-06-02
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GHSA
GHSA-wm65-g4q2-jh7c: Firefox did not properly handle downloads of files ending in↗2023-06-02
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities↗2023-04-13
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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2023-04-12
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Red Hat
Mozilla: Files with malicious extensions could have been downloaded unsafely on Linux↗2023-04-11
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Debian
CVE-2023-29541: firefox - Firefox did not properly handle downloads of files ending in <code>.desktop</cod...↗2023
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Mozilla
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2023-14: CVE-2023-29541↗
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