The Mozilla Foundation describes this issue as follows:
Firefox did not properly handle downloads of files ending in .desktop, which can be interpreted to run attacker-controlled commands.
This bug only affects Firefox for Linux on certain Distributions. Other operating systems are unaffected, and Mozilla is unable to enumerate all affected Linux Distributions.
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
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Amazon Linux 2 - Firefox Extra | firefox | 2023-08-21 21:01 | ALAS2FIREFOX-2023-006 |
Amazon Linux 2 - Core | thunderbird | 2023-04-27 18:37 | ALAS2-2023-2028 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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Amazon Linux | CVSSv3 | 7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
NVD | CVSSv3 | 8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |