8.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
0.003 Low
EPSS
Percentile
70.1%
The version of Firefox installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 106.0. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2022-44 advisory.
A same-origin policy violation could have allowed the theft of cross-origin URL entries, leaking the result of a redirect, via <code>performance.getEntries()</code>. (CVE-2022-42927)
Certain types of allocations were missing annotations that, if the Garbage Collector was in a specific state, could have lead to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2022-42928)
If a website called <code>window.print()</code> in a particular way, it could cause a denial of service of the browser, which may persist beyond browser restart depending on the user’s session restore settings.
(CVE-2022-42929)
If two Workers were simultaneously initializing their CacheStorage, a data race could have occurred in the <code>ThirdPartyUtil</code> component. (CVE-2022-42930)
Logins saved by Firefox should be managed by the Password Manager component which uses encryption to save files on-disk. Instead, the username (not password) was saved by the Form Manager to an unencrypted file on disk. (CVE-2022-42931)
Mozilla developers Ashley Hale and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 105 and Firefox ESR 102.3. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-42932)
Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory mfsa2022-44.
# The text itself is copyright (C) Mozilla Foundation.
##
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(166208);
script_version("1.14");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/10/25");
script_cve_id(
"CVE-2022-42927",
"CVE-2022-42928",
"CVE-2022-42929",
"CVE-2022-42930",
"CVE-2022-42931",
"CVE-2022-42932",
"CVE-2022-46881",
"CVE-2022-46885"
);
script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2022-A-0435-S");
script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2022-A-0517-S");
script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2023-A-0009-S");
script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2023-A-0132-S");
script_name(english:"Mozilla Firefox < 106.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"A web browser installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The version of Firefox installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 106.0. It is, therefore, affected by
multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2022-44 advisory.
- A same-origin policy violation could have allowed the theft of cross-origin URL entries, leaking the
result of a redirect, via <code>performance.getEntries()</code>. (CVE-2022-42927)
- Certain types of allocations were missing annotations that, if the Garbage Collector was in a specific
state, could have lead to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2022-42928)
- If a website called <code>window.print()</code> in a particular way, it could cause a denial of service of
the browser, which may persist beyond browser restart depending on the user's session restore settings.
(CVE-2022-42929)
- If two Workers were simultaneously initializing their CacheStorage, a data race could have occurred in the
<code>ThirdPartyUtil</code> component. (CVE-2022-42930)
- Logins saved by Firefox should be managed by the Password Manager component which uses encryption to save
files on-disk. Instead, the username (not password) was saved by the Form Manager to an unencrypted file
on disk. (CVE-2022-42931)
- Mozilla developers Ashley Hale and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox
105 and Firefox ESR 102.3. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that
with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-42932)
Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-44/");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox version 106.0 or later.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2022-46885");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2022/10/18");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2022/10/18");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2022/10/18");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"I");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"MacOS X Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2022-2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("macosx_firefox_installed.nasl");
script_require_keys("MacOSX/Firefox/Installed");
exit(0);
}
include('mozilla_version.inc');
var kb_base = 'MacOSX/Firefox';
get_kb_item_or_exit(kb_base+'/Installed');
var version = get_kb_item_or_exit(kb_base+'/Version', exit_code:1);
var path = get_kb_item_or_exit(kb_base+'/Path', exit_code:1);
var is_esr = get_kb_item(kb_base+'/is_esr');
if (is_esr) exit(0, 'The Mozilla Firefox installation is in the ESR branch.');
mozilla_check_version(version:version, path:path, product:'firefox', esr:FALSE, fix:'106.0', severity:SECURITY_HOLE);
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-42927
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-42928
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-42929
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-42930
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-42931
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-42932
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-46881
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-46885
www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-44/