Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2023-32210

 

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2023-32210

Published: May 9, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU75879
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-2023-32210
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to documents incorrectly assume an ordering of principal objects. A remote attacker can cause a document to be loaded with a higher privileged principal than intended.


Affected software

Mozilla Firefox
Gentoo Linux
Ubuntu
openEuler
www-client/firefox
firefox (Ubuntu package)
firefox
firefox-debuginfo
firefox-debugsource

How to mitigate CVE-2023-32210

Install updates from vendor's website.

Mozilla Firefox - update to 113.0
www-client/firefox - update to 104
firefox (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 113.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, 113.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1, 113.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, 113.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1, 113.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, 113.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
firefox - update to 128.8.0-1
firefox-debuginfo - update to 128.8.0-1
firefox-debugsource - update to 128.8.0-1

External References

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