CVE-2023-29542 Affecting MozillaFirefox-translations-other package, versions <102.10.0-150200.152.84.1


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.54% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES153-MOZILLAFIREFOXTRANSLATIONSOTHER-5423598
  • published15 Apr 2023
  • disclosed14 Apr 2023

Introduced: 14 Apr 2023

CVE-2023-29542  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.3 MozillaFirefox-translations-other to version 102.10.0-150200.152.84.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream MozillaFirefox-translations-other package and not the MozillaFirefox-translations-other package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.3 relevant fixed versions and status.

A newline in a filename could have been used to bypass the file extension security mechanisms that replace malicious file extensions such as .lnk with .download. This could have led to accidental execution of malicious code.

This bug only affects Firefox and Thunderbird on Windows. Other versions of Firefox and Thunderbird are unaffected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 112, Firefox ESR < 102.10, and Thunderbird < 102.10.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1