Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Affecting Firefox-ESR package, versions [,115.11)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.04% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UNMANAGED-FIREFOXESR-6848791
  • published 15 May 2024
  • disclosed 14 May 2024
  • credit Kim Do Hun

How to fix?

Upgrade Firefox-ESR to version 115.11 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor due to improper handling of IndexedDB files when the browser.privatebrowsing.autostart preference is enabled. An attacker can access residual data by exploiting this mismanagement.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

6.2 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None
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SUSE

6.1 medium
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Red Hat

6.1 medium