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CVE-2023-37203

Publication date 5 July 2023

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8 · High

Score breakdown

Insufficient validation in the Drag and Drop API in conjunction with social engineering, may have allowed an attacker to trick end-users into creating a shortcut to local system files. This could have been leveraged to execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 115.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
firefox 23.04 lunar
Not affected
22.10 kinetic Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 115.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.3
18.04 LTS bionic Ignored end of standard support
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored end of standard support
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of standard support
thunderbird 23.04 lunar
Not affected
22.10 kinetic Ignored end of life, was needed
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic Ignored end of standard support
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored end of standard support
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of standard support

Notes

tyhicks

mozjs contains a copy of the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine

mdeslaur

starting with Ubuntu 22.04, the firefox package is just a script that installs the Firefox snap

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.8 · High
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H