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CVE-2023-25729

UNKNOWN
Published 2023-06-02T00:00:00
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CVSS Score

V3.1
8.8
/10
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Base Score Metrics
Exploitability: N/A Impact: N/A

EPSS Score

v2025.03.14
0.001
probability
of exploitation in the wild

There is a 0.1% chance that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Updated: 2025-06-25
Exploit Probability
Percentile: 0.312
Higher than 31.2% of all CVEs

Attack Vector Metrics

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED

Impact Metrics

Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH

Description

Permission prompts for opening external schemes were only shown for <code>ContentPrincipals</code> resulting in extensions being able to open them without user interaction via <code>ExpandedPrincipals</code>. This could lead to further malicious actions such as downloading files or interacting with software already installed on the system. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 110, Thunderbird < 102.8, and Firefox ESR < 102.8.

Available Exploits

No exploits available for this CVE.

Related News

No news articles found for this CVE.

Affected Products

Mozilla

Firefox

Affected Versions:

unspecified
Mozilla

Thunderbird

Affected Versions:

unspecified
Mozilla

Firefox ESR

Affected Versions:

unspecified

GitHub Security Advisories

Community-driven vulnerability intelligence from GitHub

⚠ Unreviewed HIGH

GHSA-vhjv-4vf6-mc9x

Advisory Details

Permission prompts for opening external schemes were only shown for <code>ContentPrincipals</code> resulting in extensions being able to open them without user interaction via <code>ExpandedPrincipals</code>. This could lead to further malicious actions such as downloading files or interacting with software already installed on the system. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 110, Thunderbird < 102.8, and Firefox ESR < 102.8.

CVSS Scoring

CVSS Score

7.5

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-25729
WEB https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1792138
WEB https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-05
WEB https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-06
WEB https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-07

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: June 2, 2023, Modified: April 4, 2024

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-06/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-05/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-07/
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1792138
Published: 2023-06-02T00:00:00
Last Modified: 2025-01-10T17:35:40.802Z
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