Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Firefox for Android and Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2023-6210

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Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Firefox for Android and Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2023-6210

Published: November 21, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU83374
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-2023-6210
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 application does not properly impose security restrictions. When an https: web page created a pop-up from a "javascript:" URL, that pop-up was incorrectly allowed to load blockable content, such as iframes from insecure http: URLs.


Affected software

Firefox for Android
Mozilla Firefox
Gentoo Linux
Ubuntu
openEuler
Fedora
Oracle Solaris
www-client/firefox
firefox (Ubuntu package)
firefox-flatpak
firefox
firefox-debuginfo
firefox-debugsource

How to mitigate CVE-2023-6210

Install updates from vendor's website.

Firefox for Android - update to 120.0
Mozilla Firefox - update to 120.0
Oracle Solaris - update to 11.4 SRU 65
www-client/firefox - update to 104
firefox (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 120.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1, 120.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
firefox-flatpak - addressed in versions 120.0-1, 120.0-2
firefox - addressed in versions 120.0-2.fc37, 120.0-2.fc38, 120.0-2.fc39, 120.0-3.fc37
firefox - update to 128.8.0-1
firefox-debuginfo - update to 128.8.0-1
firefox-debugsource - update to 128.8.0-1

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