#VU71225 OS Command Injection in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2023-23599
Published: January 17, 2023
Vulnerability identifier: #VU71225
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-23599
CWE-ID: CWE-78
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox
Software vendor:
Mozilla
Mozilla
Description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary shell commands on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation when copying a network request from the developer tools panel as a curl command in devtools on Windows. A remote attacker can trick the victim to copy and paste data from the network request into a console and execute arbitrary commands.
Remediation
Install updates from vendor's website.