Insufficient UI Warning of Dangerous Operations in Firefox for Android - CVE-2023-28159

 

Insufficient UI Warning of Dangerous Operations in Firefox for Android - CVE-2023-28159

Published: March 14, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU73669
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-2023-28159
CWE-ID: CWE-357
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to the fullscreen notification can have been hidden with download popups. A remote attacker can perform spoofing attack.


Affected software

Firefox for Android
Gentoo Linux
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12
SUSE CaaS Platform
SUSE Manager Proxy
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server
SUSE Manager Server
SUSE Enterprise Storage
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar
SUSE OpenStack Cloud
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 BCL
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 ESPOS
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1 LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2 LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS
Desktop Applications Module
openSUSE Leap
MozillaFirefox-translations-common
MozillaFirefox-devel
MozillaFirefox
MozillaFirefox-debugsource
MozillaFirefox-debuginfo
MozillaFirefox-translations-other
MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream
www-client/firefox

How to mitigate CVE-2023-28159

Install updates from vendor's website.

Firefox for Android - update to 111.0
MozillaFirefox-translations-common - addressed in versions 102.9.0-112.153.1, 102.9.0-150000.150.79.1, 102.9.0-150200.152.81.1
MozillaFirefox-devel - addressed in versions 102.9.0-112.153.1, 102.9.0-150000.150.79.1, 102.9.0-150200.152.81.1
MozillaFirefox - addressed in versions 102.9.0-112.153.1, 102.9.0-150000.150.79.1, 102.9.0-150200.152.81.1
MozillaFirefox-debugsource - addressed in versions 102.9.0-112.153.1, 102.9.0-150000.150.79.1, 102.9.0-150200.152.81.1
MozillaFirefox-debuginfo - addressed in versions 102.9.0-112.153.1, 102.9.0-150000.150.79.1, 102.9.0-150200.152.81.1
MozillaFirefox-translations-other - addressed in versions 102.9.0-150000.150.79.1, 102.9.0-150200.152.81.1
MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream - update to 102.9.0-150200.152.81.1
www-client/firefox - update to 104

External References

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