Insufficient UI Warning of Dangerous Operations in Mozilla Firefox and Firefox ESR - CVE-2023-4054

Vulnerability identifier: #VU78854

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-2023-4054

CWE-ID: CWE-357

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.

The vulnerability exists due to a missing warning when opening appref-ms files. A remote attacker can trick the victim to open a malicious appref-ms file and compromise the affected system.

Note, the vulnerability affects Windows installations only.

Mozilla Firefox
Firefox ESR
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 High Performance Computing 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 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 Proxy
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server
SUSE Manager Server
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro
SUSE Enterprise Storage
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 BCL
Slackware Linux
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1 LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 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
SUSE Package Hub 15
Desktop Applications Module
openSUSE Leap
openEuler
Anolis OS
IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management
Mozilla Thunderbird
firefox-debuginfo
firefox-debugsource
firefox
mozilla-firefox
MozillaFirefox-translations-common
MozillaFirefox
MozillaFirefox-devel
MozillaFirefox-debugsource
MozillaFirefox-debuginfo
MozillaFirefox-translations-other
MozillaThunderbird-translations-other
MozillaThunderbird-debugsource
MozillaThunderbird-debuginfo
MozillaThunderbird
MozillaThunderbird-translations-common
MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream
firefox-langpacks
firefox-wayland
firefox-x11
mail-client/thunderbird
mail-client/thunderbird-bin

Install updates from vendor's website.

Mozilla Firefox - update to 116.0
Firefox ESR - addressed in versions 102.14.0, 115.1.0
IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management - update to 2.3.8
Mozilla Thunderbird - addressed in versions 102.14.0, 115.1.0
firefox-debuginfo - update to 102.14.0-1
firefox-debugsource - update to 102.14.0-1
firefox - update to 102.14.0-1
mozilla-firefox - update to 115.1.0esr
MozillaFirefox-translations-common - addressed in versions 115.1.0-112.173.1, 115.1.0-150000.150.97.1, 115.1.0-150200.152.99.1
MozillaFirefox - addressed in versions 115.1.0-112.173.1, 115.1.0-150000.150.97.1, 115.1.0-150200.152.99.1
MozillaFirefox-devel - addressed in versions 115.1.0-112.173.1, 115.1.0-150000.150.97.1, 115.1.0-150200.152.99.1
MozillaFirefox-debugsource - addressed in versions 115.1.0-112.173.1, 115.1.0-150000.150.97.1, 115.1.0-150200.152.99.1
MozillaFirefox-debuginfo - addressed in versions 115.1.0-112.173.1, 115.1.0-150000.150.97.1, 115.1.0-150200.152.99.1
MozillaFirefox-translations-other - addressed in versions 115.1.0-150000.150.97.1, 115.1.0-150200.152.99.1
MozillaThunderbird-translations-other - update to 115.1.0-150200.8.127.1
MozillaThunderbird-debugsource - update to 115.1.0-150200.8.127.1
MozillaThunderbird-debuginfo - update to 115.1.0-150200.8.127.1
MozillaThunderbird - update to 115.1.0-150200.8.127.1
MozillaThunderbird-translations-common - update to 115.1.0-150200.8.127.1
MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream - update to 115.1.0-150200.152.99.1
firefox - update to 115.3.0-1
firefox-langpacks - update to 115.3.0-1
firefox-wayland - update to 115.3.0-1
firefox-x11 - update to 115.3.0-1
mail-client/thunderbird - update to 115.7.0
mail-client/thunderbird-bin - update to 115.7.0

• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2023-29/
• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2023-31/
• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2023-30/

• Multiple vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox
• SUSE update for MozillaFirefox
• SUSE update for MozillaFirefox
• SUSE update for MozillaFirefox
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Mozilla Thunderbird 115
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Mozilla Thunderbird 102
• Slackware Linux update for mozilla-firefox
• SUSE update for MozillaThunderbird
• Gentoo update for Mozilla Thunderbird
• Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management
• openEuler 22.03 LTS SP2 update for firefox
• Anolis OS update for firefox