Insufficient UI Warning of Dangerous Operations Affecting Firefox package, versions [,119)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (43rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FIREFOX-6033671
  • published25 Oct 2023
  • disclosed24 Oct 2023
  • creditMarco Bonardo

Introduced: 24 Oct 2023

CVE-2023-5727  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-357  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Firefox to version 119 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insufficient UI Warning of Dangerous Operations. The executable file warning is not presented when downloading .msix, .msixbundle, .appx, and .appxbundle files, which can run commands on a user’s computer.

Note: This is only exploitable if the system is running on a Windows operating system.

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