Overview
- Description
- Firefox normally asks for confirmation before asking the operating system to find an application to handle a scheme that the browser does not support. It did not ask before doing so for the Usenet-related schemes news: and snews:. Since most operating systems don't have a trusted newsreader installed by default, an unscrupulous program that the user downloaded could register itself as a handler. The website that served the application download could then launch that application at will. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 130, Firefox ESR < 128.2, and Firefox ESR < 115.15.
- Source
- security@mozilla.org
- NVD status
- Modified
Risk scores
CVSS 3.1
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 7.5
- Impact score
- 3.6
- Exploitability score
- 3.9
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- Severity
- HIGH
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- NVD-CWE-noinfo
- 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
- CWE-1188
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Configurations
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"versionEndExcluding": "130.0"
},
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"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "1208DB6D-68A1-41C1-9C57-7C1C16F32229",
"versionEndExcluding": "115.15"
},
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"matchCriteriaId": "5D8B478B-4E42-4B63-B62E-D788C298047D",
"versionEndExcluding": "128.2",
"versionStartIncluding": "128.0"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]