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CVE-2023-4054 (GCVE-0-2023-4054)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-08-01 15:00 – Updated: 2024-10-22 14:37
VLAI
Summary
When opening appref-ms files, Firefox did not warn the user that these files may contain malicious code. *This bug only affects Firefox on Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected.* This vulnerability affects Firefox < 116, Firefox ESR < 102.14, Firefox ESR < 115.1, Thunderbird < 102.14, and Thunderbird < 115.1.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-10-22 14:37 UTC
CWE
  • Lack of warning when opening appref-ms files
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Mozilla Firefox Affected: unspecified , < 116 (custom)
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Mozilla Firefox ESR Affected: unspecified , < 102.14 (custom)
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Mozilla Firefox ESR Affected: unspecified , < 115.1 (custom)
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Mozilla Thunderbird Affected: unspecified , < 102.14 (custom)
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Mozilla Thunderbird Affected: unspecified , < 115.1 (custom)
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Credits
P Umar Farooq
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  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.