OS Command Injection in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2023-23599

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OS Command Injection in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2023-23599

Published: January 17, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU71225
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 7.4 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-23599
CWE-ID: CWE-78
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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.


Affected software

Mozilla Firefox
Firefox ESR
Gentoo Linux
SUSE Manager Server
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server
SUSE Manager Proxy
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
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
Anolis OS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support
Oracle Solaris
Slackware Linux
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension
openSUSE Leap
Ubuntu
openEuler
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Packagehub Subpackages
mozjs78
mozjs78-devel
mozjs78-debugsource
mozjs78-debuginfo
mozjs78-help
mail-client/thunderbird
mail-client/thunderbird-bin
mozilla-firefox
firefox (Red Hat package)
firefox
thunderbird (Ubuntu package)
thunderbird (Red Hat package)
thunderbird
MozillaThunderbird-translations-other
MozillaThunderbird-translations-common
MozillaThunderbird-debugsource
MozillaThunderbird-debuginfo
MozillaThunderbird
www-client/firefox
firefox (Ubuntu package)
Mozilla Thunderbird
IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Monitoring
IBM Cloud Application Performance Management (APM)

How to mitigate CVE-2023-23599

Install updates from vendor's website.

Mozilla Firefox - update to 109.0
Mozilla Thunderbird - update to 102.7.0
Firefox ESR - update to 102.7.0
IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Monitoring - update to 2.3 Fix Pack 7
IBM Cloud Application Performance Management (APM) - update to 8.1.4.0.17
mozjs78 - update to 78.4.0-3
mozjs78-devel - update to 78.4.0-3
mozjs78-debugsource - update to 78.4.0-3
mozjs78-debuginfo - update to 78.4.0-3
mozjs78-help - update to 78.4.0-3
mail-client/thunderbird - update to 102.7.0
mail-client/thunderbird-bin - update to 102.7.0
mozilla-firefox - addressed in versions 102.7.0esr, 109.0
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
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-translations-other - update to 102.7.1-150200.8.102.1
MozillaThunderbird-translations-common - update to 102.7.1-150200.8.102.1
MozillaThunderbird-debugsource - update to 102.7.1-150200.8.102.1
MozillaThunderbird-debuginfo - update to 102.7.1-150200.8.102.1
MozillaThunderbird - update to 102.7.1-150200.8.102.1
www-client/firefox - update to 104
firefox (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 109.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, 109.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1, 109.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.2, 109.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.2

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