Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities of Mozilla Firefox ESR have affected APM Synthetic Playback Agent

Summary

APM Synthetic Playback Agent is vulnerable to Firefox ESR CVE-2023-23599, CVE-2023-23603, CVE-2023-23605, CVE-2023-23602, CVE-2023-23601, CVE-2023-23598. Firefox ESR is used by APM Synthetic Playback Agent for running the selenium scripts. The fix includes support for Firefox 102.7 ESR.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-23599
**DESCRIPTION:**Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the improper validation of output when copying a network request from the developer tools panel as a curl command. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to allow arbitrary commands to be hidden within.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/244843 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-23603
**DESCRIPTION:**Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the failure to account for external URLs by regular expressions used to filter out forbidden properties and values from style directives in calls to console.log. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exfiltrate data from the browser.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/244847 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-23605
**DESCRIPTION:**Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by memory safety bugs within the browser engine. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using unknown attack vectors to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable system or cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/244839 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-23602
**DESCRIPTION:**Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the failure to correctly apply Content Security Policy to WebSockets in WebWorkers. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to lead to connections to restricted origins from inside WebWorkers.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/244846 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-23601
**DESCRIPTION:**Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to conduct spoofing attacks, caused by navigations being allowed when dragging a URL from a cross-origin iframe into the same tab. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to conduct spoofing attacks.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/244845 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-23598
**DESCRIPTION:**Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the use of text/plain for a GTK drag and drop on Linux. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a call to DataTransfer.setData to read arbitrary files on the system.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/244840 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading:

Product Remediation

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Fix

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APM on-premise

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Synthetic Playback Agent 8.1.4 IF17

Download link: http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/quickorder?product=ibm%2FTivoli%2FIBM+Application+Performance+Management+Advanced&fixids=8.1.4.0-IBM-APM-SYNTHETIC-PLAYBACK-AGENT-IF0017&source=SAR

Readme: <https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6847849&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None