Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere in Mozilla Firefox and Firefox ESR - CVE-2022-36314

Vulnerability identifier: #VU65794

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 4.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2022-36314

CWE-ID: CWE-668

Exploitation vector: Local access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows an attacker to initiate unintended actions.

The vulnerability exists due to an error when opening .lnk shortcuts on the system. If the shortcut contains a link to an external resource the browser can initiate network requests from the operating system.

The vulnerability affects Windows installations only.

Mozilla Firefox
Firefox ESR
SUSE CaaS Platform
SUSE Manager Server
SUSE Manager Proxy
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server
SUSE Enterprise Storage
SUSE Linux Enterprise Storage
SUSE OpenStack Cloud
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension
openSUSE Leap
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Packagehub Subpackages
MozillaFirefox-translations-common
MozillaFirefox-devel
MozillaFirefox-debugsource
MozillaFirefox-debuginfo
MozillaFirefox
MozillaFirefox-translations-other
MozillaThunderbird-translations-common
MozillaThunderbird-translations-other
MozillaThunderbird-debugsource
MozillaThunderbird-debuginfo
MozillaThunderbird
MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream
MozillaFirefox-branding-SLE
Mozilla Thunderbird
IBM Cloud Application Performance Management (APM)

Install updates from vendor's website.

Mozilla Firefox - update to 103.0
Firefox ESR - update to 102.1.0
Mozilla Thunderbird - update to 102.1.0
IBM Cloud Application Performance Management (APM) - update to 8.1.4.0.16
MozillaFirefox-translations-common - addressed in versions 102.2.0-112.130.1, 102.2.0-150000.150.56.1, 102.3.0-150200.152.61.1
MozillaFirefox-devel - addressed in versions 102.2.0-112.130.1, 102.2.0-150000.150.56.1, 102.3.0-150200.152.61.1
MozillaFirefox-debugsource - addressed in versions 102.2.0-112.130.1, 102.2.0-150000.150.56.1, 102.3.0-150200.152.61.1
MozillaFirefox-debuginfo - addressed in versions 102.2.0-112.130.1, 102.2.0-150000.150.56.1, 102.3.0-150200.152.61.1
MozillaFirefox - addressed in versions 102.2.0-112.130.1, 102.2.0-150000.150.56.1, 102.3.0-150200.152.61.1
MozillaFirefox-translations-other - addressed in versions 102.2.0-150000.150.56.1, 102.3.0-150200.152.61.1
MozillaThunderbird-translations-common - update to 102.2.2-150200.8.82.1
MozillaThunderbird-translations-other - update to 102.2.2-150200.8.82.1
MozillaThunderbird-debugsource - update to 102.2.2-150200.8.82.1
MozillaThunderbird-debuginfo - update to 102.2.2-150200.8.82.1
MozillaThunderbird - update to 102.2.2-150200.8.82.1
MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream - update to 102.3.0-150200.152.61.1
MozillaFirefox-branding-SLE - addressed in versions 102-35.9.1, 102-150000.4.22.1, 102-150200.9.10.1

• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-28/
• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-30/

• Multiple vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox and Firefox ESR
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Mozilla Thunderbird
• SUSE update for MozillaFirefox
• SUSE update for MozillaFirefox
• SUSE update for MozillaThunderbird
• SUSE update for MozillaFirefox
• Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Application Performance Management