Information Exposure Affecting Firefox package, versions [,102.9)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (36th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FIREFOX-3361729
  • published16 Mar 2023
  • disclosed14 Mar 2023
  • creditShaheen Fazim

Introduced: 14 Mar 2023

CVE-2023-28163  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Firefox to version 102.9 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure when downloading files through the Save As dialog on Windows with suggested filenames containing environment variable names, Windows would have resolved those in the context of the current user.

Note: This bug only affects Firefox on Windows.

CVSS Scores

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