Information disclosure in Mozilla Firefox and Firefox for Android - CVE-2023-28160

Vulnerability identifier: #VU73679

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2023-28160

CWE-ID: CWE-200

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to browser translates the URL to the actual local path when following a redirect to a publicly accessible web extension file. A remote attacker can gain unauthorized access to sensitive information on the system.

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

Install updates from vendor's website.

Mozilla Firefox - update to 111.0
Firefox for Android - update to 111.0
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-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 - 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-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-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
firefox (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 111.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, 111.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1, 111.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, 111.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
firefox - update to 128.8.0-1
firefox-debuginfo - update to 128.8.0-1
firefox-debugsource - update to 128.8.0-1

• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2023-09/

• Multiple vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox
• SUSE update for MozillaFirefox
• Ubuntu update for firefox
• SUSE update for MozillaFirefox
• SUSE update for MozillaFirefox
• Ubuntu update for firefox
• Gentoo update for Mozilla Firefox
• openEuler 22.03 LTS SP4 update for firefox
• openEuler 22.03 LTS SP3 update for firefox