Insufficient UI Warning of Dangerous Operations in Mozilla Firefox and Firefox ESR - CVE-2022-22756

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Insufficient UI Warning of Dangerous Operations in Mozilla Firefox and Firefox ESR - CVE-2022-22756

Published: February 8, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU60398
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 7.5 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-22756
CWE-ID: CWE-357
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability exists due to browser fails to properly identify a malicious file during drag and drop operations. A remote attacker can trick the victim to drag and drop an image to their desktop or other folder and change the resulting object into an executable script which will be executed after the user clicked on it.


Affected software

Mozilla Firefox
Firefox ESR
Pale Moon
Gentoo Linux
SUSE CaaS Platform
SUSE Manager Server
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server
SUSE Manager Proxy
SUSE Enterprise Storage
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Anolis OS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
CentOS
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64
SUSE OpenStack Cloud
HPE Helion Openstack
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support
SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit
Slackware Linux
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing
SUSE Linux Enterprise Realtime Extension
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension
Ubuntu
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions
thunderbird (Debian package)
firefox-esr (Debian package)
thunderbird (Red Hat package)
firefox (Red Hat package)
firefox
thunderbird
MozillaFirefox-debuginfo
MozillaFirefox-translations-other
MozillaFirefox
MozillaFirefox-translations-common
MozillaFirefox-devel
MozillaFirefox-debugsource
MozillaThunderbird-translations-other
MozillaThunderbird-translations-common
MozillaThunderbird-debugsource
MozillaThunderbird-debuginfo
MozillaThunderbird
thunderbird (Ubuntu package)
mail-client/thunderbird-bin
mail-client/thunderbird
firefox (Ubuntu package)
Mozilla Thunderbird

How to mitigate CVE-2022-22756

Install updates from vendor's website.

Mozilla Firefox - update to 97.0
Firefox ESR - update to 91.6.0
Pale Moon - update to 29.4.5
thunderbird (Debian package) - addressed in versions 1:91.6.0-1~deb10u1, 1:91.6.0-1~deb11u1
firefox-esr (Debian package) - addressed in versions 91.6.0esr-1~deb10u1, 91.6.0esr-1~deb11u1
Mozilla Thunderbird - update to 91.6.0
thunderbird (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 91.6.0-1.el7_9, 91.6.0-1.el8_1, 91.6.0-1.el8_2, 91.6.0-1.el8_4, 91.6.0-1.el8_5
firefox (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 91.6.0-1.el7_9, 91.6.0-1.el8_1, 91.6.0-1.el8_2, 91.6.0-1.el8_4, 91.6.0-1.el8_5
firefox - update to 91.6.0-1.0.1
thunderbird - update to 91.6.0-1.0.1
MozillaFirefox-debuginfo - addressed in versions 91.6.0-78.162.2, 91.6.0-112.89.1, 91.6.0-150.18.1, 91.6.0-152.15.1
MozillaFirefox-translations-other - addressed in versions 91.6.0-78.162.2, 91.6.0-150.18.1, 91.6.0-152.15.1
MozillaFirefox - addressed in versions 91.6.0-78.162.2, 91.6.0-112.89.1, 91.6.0-150.18.1, 91.6.0-152.15.1
MozillaFirefox-translations-common - addressed in versions 91.6.0-78.162.2, 91.6.0-112.89.1, 91.6.0-150.18.1, 91.6.0-152.15.1
MozillaFirefox-devel - addressed in versions 91.6.0-112.89.1, 91.6.0-150.18.1, 91.6.0-152.15.1
MozillaFirefox-debugsource - addressed in versions 91.6.0-112.89.1, 91.6.0-150.18.1, 91.6.0-152.15.1
MozillaThunderbird-translations-other - update to 91.6.1-8.54.1
MozillaThunderbird-translations-common - update to 91.6.1-8.54.1
MozillaThunderbird-debugsource - update to 91.6.1-8.54.1
MozillaThunderbird-debuginfo - update to 91.6.1-8.54.1
MozillaThunderbird - update to 91.6.1-8.54.1
thunderbird (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 1:91.7.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, 1:91.7.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1, 1:91.7.0+build2-0ubuntu0.21.10.1
mail-client/thunderbird-bin - update to 91.12.0
mail-client/thunderbird - update to 91.12.0
firefox (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 97.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, 97.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1, 97.0+build2-0ubuntu0.21.10.1

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