Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities of Mozilla Firefox (less than Firefox 102.9ESR) have affected APM Synthetic Playback Agent

Summary

APM Synthetic Playback Agent is vulnerable to Firefox ESR CVE-2023-28163, CVE-2023-25752, CVE-2023-28164, CVE-2023-28162, CVE-2023-25751. Firefox ESR is used by APM Synthetic Playback Agent for running the selenium scripts. The fix includes support for Firefox 102.9 ESR.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-28163
**DESCRIPTION:**Mozilla Firefox could provide weaker than expected, caused by an error when the Windows Save As dialog resolve environment variables. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to launch further attacks on the system.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/249971 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-2023-25752
**DESCRIPTION:**Mozilla Firefox could provide weaker than expected, caused by an out-of-bounds when accessing throttled streams. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to lead future code to be incorrect and vulnerable.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/249970 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-2023-28164
**DESCRIPTION:**Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to conduct spoofing attacks, caused by dragging a URL from a cross-origin iframe that was removed during the drag. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause user confusion or perform spoofing attacks.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/249957 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-2023-28162
**DESCRIPTION:**Mozilla Firefox is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by invalid downcast in Worklets. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the browser to crash.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/249969 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-2023-25751
**DESCRIPTION:**Mozilla Firefox is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by incorrect code generation during JIT compilation. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the browser to crash.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/249966 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

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 IF18

Download link: https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/quickorder?product=ibm%2FTivoli%2FIBM+Application+Performance+Management+Advanced&fixids=8.1.4.0-IBM-APM-SYNTHETIC-PLAYBACK-AGENT-IF0018&source=SAR

Readme: <https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6965798&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None