Creation of Temporary File With Insecure Permissions Affecting Firefox package, versions [,107)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.07% (33rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FIREFOX-3183371
  • published26 Dec 2022
  • disclosed26 Dec 2022
  • creditJefferson Scher, Jayateertha Guruprasad

Introduced: 26 Dec 2022

CVE-2022-45415  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-378  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Firefox to version 107 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Creation of Temporary File With Insecure Permissions. When downloading an HTML file, if the title of the page was formatted as a filename with a malicious extension, Firefox may have saved the file with that extension, leading to possible system compromise if the downloaded file was later ran.

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