Insufficient UI Warning of Dangerous Operations in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2022-46877

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Insufficient UI Warning of Dangerous Operations in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2022-46877

Published: December 13, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU70154
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-46877
CWE-ID: CWE-357
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to the way fullscreen notifications are displayed by the browser. A remote attacker can confuse browser to delay or suppress fullscreen notifications and perform spoofing attack.


Affected software

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

How to mitigate CVE-2022-46877

Install updates from vendor's website.

Mozilla Firefox - update to 108.0
Firefox ESR - update to 102.7.0
Mozilla Thunderbird - update to 102.7.0
mail-client/thunderbird-bin - update to 102.7.0
mail-client/thunderbird - update to 102.7.0
mozilla-firefox - addressed in versions 102.7.0esr, 109.0
firefox-esr (Debian package) - update to 102.7.0esr-1~deb11u1
firefox (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 102.7.0-1.el7_9, 102.7.0-1.el8_1, 102.7.0-1.el8_2, 102.7.0-1.el8_4, 102.7.0-1.el8_6, 102.7.0-1.el8_7, 102.7.0-1.el9_0, 102.7.0-1.el9_1
firefox - update to 102.7.0-1.0.1
MozillaFirefox-translations-common - addressed in versions 102.7.0-112.145.1, 102.7.0-150000.150.71.1, 102.7.0-150200.152.73.1
MozillaFirefox-devel - addressed in versions 102.7.0-112.145.1, 102.7.0-150000.150.71.1, 102.7.0-150200.152.73.1
MozillaFirefox-debugsource - addressed in versions 102.7.0-112.145.1, 102.7.0-150000.150.71.1, 102.7.0-150200.152.73.1
MozillaFirefox-debuginfo - addressed in versions 102.7.0-112.145.1, 102.7.0-150000.150.71.1, 102.7.0-150200.152.73.1
MozillaFirefox - addressed in versions 102.7.0-112.145.1, 102.7.0-150000.150.71.1, 102.7.0-150200.152.73.1
MozillaFirefox-translations-other - addressed in versions 102.7.0-150000.150.71.1, 102.7.0-150200.152.73.1
MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream - update to 102.7.0-150200.152.73.1
thunderbird (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 1:102.7.1+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, 1:102.7.1+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1, 1:102.7.1+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1, 1:102.7.1+build2-0ubuntu0.22.10.1
thunderbird (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 102.7.1-1.el7_9, 102.7.1-1.el8_1, 102.7.1-1.el8_2, 102.7.1-1.el8_4, 102.7.1-1.el8_6, 102.7.1-1.el8_7, 102.7.1-1.el9_0, 102.7.1-1.el9_1
thunderbird - update to 102.7.1-1.0.1
MozillaThunderbird - update to 102.7.1-150200.8.102.1
MozillaThunderbird-debuginfo - update to 102.7.1-150200.8.102.1
MozillaThunderbird-debugsource - update to 102.7.1-150200.8.102.1
MozillaThunderbird-translations-common - update to 102.7.1-150200.8.102.1
MozillaThunderbird-translations-other - update to 102.7.1-150200.8.102.1
thunderbird (Debian package) - update to 1:102.8.0-1~deb11u1
www-client/firefox - update to 104
firefox (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 108.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, 108.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1, 108.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, 108.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1, 108.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, 108.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

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