Insufficient UI Warning of Dangerous Operations in Mozilla Firefox and Firefox ESR - CVE-2022-46875
Published: December 13, 2022 / Updated: January 16, 2023
Vulnerability identifier: #VU70148
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:P/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-46875
CWE-ID: CWE-357
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
Public exploit is available
Vendor: Mozilla
Affected software:
Mozilla Firefox
Firefox ESR
Mozilla Firefox
Firefox ESR
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.
The vulnerability exists due to executable file warning is not displayed when downloading .atloc and .ftploc files. A remote attacker can trick the victim into downloading and executing dangerous files.
Note, the vulnerability affects macOS installations only.
How to mitigate CVE-2022-46875
Install updates from vendor's website.