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CVE-2023-25734

Public on 2023-02-17
Modified on 2024-02-07
Description

The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:

After downloading a Windows `.url` shortcut from the local filesystem, an attacker could supply a remote path that would lead to unexpected network requests from the operating system. This also had the potential to leak NTLM credentials to the resource.

*This bug only affects Firefox on Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected.*

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
6.1
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 2 - Firefox Extra firefox 2023-08-21 21:01 ALAS2FIREFOX-2023-007
Amazon Linux 2 - Core thunderbird 2023-03-02 22:36 ALAS2-2023-1983

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N