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CVE-2023-28160

Published: 15 March 2023

When following a redirect to a publicly accessible web extension file, the URL may have been translated to the actual local path, leaking potentially sensitive information. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 111.

Notes

AuthorNote
tyhicks
mozjs contains a copy of the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine
mdeslaur
starting with Ubuntu 22.04, the firefox package is just a script
that installs the Firefox snap

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
firefox
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
jammy Not vulnerable
(code not present)
kinetic Not vulnerable
(code not present)
trusty Ignored
(end of standard support)
upstream Needs triage

bionic
Released (111.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1)
focal
Released (111.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1)
lunar Not vulnerable
(code not present)
xenial Ignored
(end of standard support)
mantic Not vulnerable
(code not present)
mozjs68
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

bionic Does not exist

focal Needs triage

jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

mozjs78
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Does not exist

focal Does not exist

jammy Needs triage

trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

kinetic Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
mantic Does not exist

lunar Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
mozjs91
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Does not exist

focal Does not exist

jammy Needs triage

kinetic Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

thunderbird
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
kinetic Ignored
(end of life, was needed)
focal Not vulnerable

jammy Not vulnerable

trusty Ignored
(end of standard support)
upstream Needs triage

lunar Not vulnerable

bionic Ignored
(end of standard support, was needed)
xenial Ignored
(end of standard support)
mantic Not vulnerable

mozjs38
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Needs triage

focal Does not exist

jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

mozjs52
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Needs triage

focal Needs triage

trusty Does not exist

xenial Does not exist

jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact None
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N