The version of Firefox installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 95.0. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2021-52 advisory.
Under certain circumstances, asynchronous functions could have caused a navigation to fail but expose the target URL. (CVE-2021-43536)
An incorrect type conversion of sizes from 64bit to 32bit integers allowed an attacker to corrupt memory leading to a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2021-43537)
By misusing a race in our notification code, an attacker could have forcefully hidden the notification for pages that had received full screen and pointer lock access, which could have been used for spoofing attacks. (CVE-2021-43538)
Failure to correctly record the location of live pointers across wasm instance calls resulted in a GC occurring within the call not tracing those live pointers. This could have led to a use-after-free causing a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2021-43539)
WebExtensions with the correct permissions were able to create and install ServiceWorkers for third-party websites that would not have been uninstalled with the extension. (CVE-2021-43540)
When invoking protocol handlers for external protocols, a supplied parameter URL containing spaces was not properly escaped. (CVE-2021-43541)
Using XMLHttpRequest, an attacker could have identified installed applications by probing error messages for loading external protocols. (CVE-2021-43542)
Documents loaded with the CSP sandbox directive could have escaped the sandbox’s script restriction by embedding additional content. (CVE-2021-43543)
When receiving a URL through a SEND intent, Firefox would have searched for the text, but subsequent usages of the address bar might have caused the URL to load unintentionally, which could lead to XSS and spoofing attacks. This bug only affects Firefox for Android. Other operating systems are unaffected.
(CVE-2021-43544)
Using the Location API in a loop could have caused severe application hangs and crashes. (CVE-2021-43545)
It was possible to recreate previous cursor spoofing attacks against users with a zoomed native cursor.
(CVE-2021-43546)
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
##
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory mfsa2021-52.
# The text itself is copyright (C) Mozilla Foundation.
##
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(155917);
script_version("1.8");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/11/22");
script_cve_id(
"CVE-2021-4128",
"CVE-2021-4129",
"CVE-2021-43536",
"CVE-2021-43537",
"CVE-2021-43538",
"CVE-2021-43539",
"CVE-2021-43540",
"CVE-2021-43541",
"CVE-2021-43542",
"CVE-2021-43543",
"CVE-2021-43544",
"CVE-2021-43545",
"CVE-2021-43546"
);
script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2021-A-0569-S");
script_name(english:"Mozilla Firefox < 95.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"A web browser installed on the remote Windows host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The version of Firefox installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 95.0. It is, therefore, affected by multiple
vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2021-52 advisory.
- Under certain circumstances, asynchronous functions could have caused a navigation to fail but expose the
target URL. (CVE-2021-43536)
- An incorrect type conversion of sizes from 64bit to 32bit integers allowed an attacker to corrupt memory
leading to a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2021-43537)
- By misusing a race in our notification code, an attacker could have forcefully hidden the notification for
pages that had received full screen and pointer lock access, which could have been used for spoofing
attacks. (CVE-2021-43538)
- Failure to correctly record the location of live pointers across wasm instance calls resulted in a GC
occurring within the call not tracing those live pointers. This could have led to a use-after-free causing
a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2021-43539)
- WebExtensions with the correct permissions were able to create and install ServiceWorkers for third-party
websites that would not have been uninstalled with the extension. (CVE-2021-43540)
- When invoking protocol handlers for external protocols, a supplied parameter URL containing spaces was not
properly escaped. (CVE-2021-43541)
- Using XMLHttpRequest, an attacker could have identified installed applications by probing error messages
for loading external protocols. (CVE-2021-43542)
- Documents loaded with the CSP sandbox directive could have escaped the sandbox's script restriction by
embedding additional content. (CVE-2021-43543)
- When receiving a URL through a SEND intent, Firefox would have searched for the text, but subsequent
usages of the address bar might have caused the URL to load unintentionally, which could lead to XSS and
spoofing attacks. This bug only affects Firefox for Android. Other operating systems are unaffected.
(CVE-2021-43544)
- Using the Location API in a loop could have caused severe application hangs and crashes. (CVE-2021-43545)
- It was possible to recreate previous cursor spoofing attacks against users with a zoomed native cursor.
(CVE-2021-43546)
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue 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/mfsa2021-52/");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox version 95.0 or later.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2021-43539");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss3_score_source", value:"CVE-2021-4129");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2021/12/07");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2021/12/07");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2021/12/08");
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:"Windows");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2021-2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("mozilla_org_installed.nasl");
script_require_keys("Mozilla/Firefox/Version");
exit(0);
}
include('mozilla_version.inc');
var port = get_kb_item('SMB/transport');
if (!port) port = 445;
var installs = get_kb_list('SMB/Mozilla/Firefox/*');
if (isnull(installs)) audit(AUDIT_NOT_INST, 'Firefox');
mozilla_check_version(installs:installs, product:'firefox', esr:FALSE, fix:'95.0', xss:TRUE, severity:SECURITY_WARNING);
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-4128
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-4129
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-43536
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-43537
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-43538
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-43539
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-43540
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-43541
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-43542
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-43543
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-43544
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-43545
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-43546
www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-52/