Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities of Mozilla Firefox (less than Firefox 102.8ESR) have affected APM Synthetic Playback Agent

Summary

APM Synthetic Playback Agent is vulnerable to Firefox ESR CVE-2023-25730, CVE-2023-25729, CVE-2023-25742, CVE-2023-25734, CVE-2023-25738, CVE-2023-25728 . Firefox ESR is used by APM Synthetic Playback Agent for running the selenium scripts. The fix includes support for Firefox 102.8 ESR.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-25730
**DESCRIPTION:**Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to conduct spoofing attacks, caused by a background script that invokes requestFullscreen and then blocks the main thread. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to hijack the screen and conduct a spoofing attack.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/247258 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-25729
**DESCRIPTION:**Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by permission prompts for opening external schemes being opened by extensions and without user interaction. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to conduct malicious actions such as downloading files or interacting with software already installed on the system.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/247279 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-25742
**DESCRIPTION:**Mozilla Firefox is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the improper handling of the key when importing a SPKI RSA public key as ECDSA P-256. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the tab to crash.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/247287 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-25734
**DESCRIPTION:**Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the opening of local .url files. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to lead to unexpected network requests from the operating system.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/247281 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-25738
**DESCRIPTION:**Mozilla Firefox is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the failure to validate members of the DEVMODEW struct set by the printer device driver. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the browser to attempt out of bounds access to related variables, resulting in a crash.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/247262 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-25728
**DESCRIPTION:**Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a Content security policy leak in violation reports using iframes. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using the Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only header to leak a child iframe’s unredacted URI.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/247257 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading:

Product Remediation

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Fix

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APM on-premise

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Synthetic Playback Agent 8.1.4 IF18

Download link: https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/quickorder?product=ibm%2FTivoli%2FIBM+Application+Performance+Management+Advanced&fixids=8.1.4.0-IBM-APM-SYNTHETIC-PLAYBACK-AGENT-IF0018&source=SAR

Readme: <https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6965798&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None