CVE-2023-4579 — Mozilla Firefox vulnerability

8 documents7 sources
Severity
3.1LOWNVD
OSV6.5
EPSS
0.2%
top 62.12%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Mozilla Firefox
Timeline
PublishedSep 11

Description

Search queries in the default search engine could appear to have been the currently navigated URL if the search query itself was a well formed URL. This could have led to a site spoofing another if it had been maliciously set as the default search engine. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 117.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NExploitability: 1.6 | Impact: 1.4

Affected Packages3 packages

▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified — 117
▶NVDmozilla/firefox< 117.0
▶Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 117.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
CVEList
Persisted search terms were formatted as URLs↗2023-09-11
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GHSA
GHSA-qj3f-v6p7-vxvm: Search queries in the default search engine could appear to have been the currently navigated URL if the search query itself was a well formed URL↗2023-09-11
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OSV
firefox vulnerabilities↗2023-08-30
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OSV
CVE-2023-4579: Search queries in the default search engine could appear to have been the currently navigated URL if the search query itself was a well formed URL↗2023-08-30
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2023-08-30
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Debian
CVE-2023-4579: firefox - Search queries in the default search engine could appear to have been the curren...↗2023
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Mozilla
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2023-34: CVE-2023-4579↗
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