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Mozilla Firefox ESR < 78.14

2021-09-0700:00:00
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mozilla firefox esr
vulnerabilities
macos
mac os x
mfsa2021-39 advisory

CVSS2

6.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS3

8.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

AI Score

9.1

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.004

Percentile

74.7%

The version of Firefox ESR installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 78.14. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2021-39 advisory.

  • When delegating navigations to the operating system, Firefox would accept the mk scheme which might allow attackers to launch pages and execute scripts in Internet Explorer in unprivileged mode. This bug only affects Firefox for Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected. (CVE-2021-38492)

  • Mozilla developers Tyson Smith and Gabriele Svelto reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 91 and Firefox ESR 78.13. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-38493)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
## 
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#                                  
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory mfsa2021-39.
# The text itself is copyright (C) Mozilla Foundation.
##

include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(153091);
  script_version("1.5");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/12/01");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2021-38492", "CVE-2021-38493");
  script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2021-A-0405");

  script_name(english:"Mozilla Firefox ESR < 78.14");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"A web browser installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The version of Firefox ESR installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 78.14. It is, therefore, affected
by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2021-39 advisory.

  - When delegating navigations to the operating system, Firefox would accept the `mk` scheme which might
    allow attackers to launch pages and execute scripts in Internet Explorer in unprivileged mode. This
    bug only affects Firefox for Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected. (CVE-2021-38492)

  - Mozilla developers Tyson Smith and Gabriele Svelto reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 91 and
    Firefox ESR 78.13. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough
    effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-38493)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-39/");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox ESR version 78.14 or later.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2021-38493");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2021/09/07");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2021/09/07");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2021/09/07");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox_esr");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"I");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"MacOS X Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2021-2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("macosx_firefox_installed.nasl");
  script_require_keys("MacOSX/Firefox/Version");

  exit(0);
}

include('mozilla_version.inc');

var kb_base = 'MacOSX/Firefox';
get_kb_item_or_exit(kb_base+'/Installed');

var version = get_kb_item_or_exit(kb_base+'/Version', exit_code:1);
var path = get_kb_item_or_exit(kb_base+'/Path', exit_code:1);

var is_esr = get_kb_item(kb_base+'/is_esr');
if (isnull(is_esr)) audit(AUDIT_NOT_INST, 'Mozilla Firefox ESR');

mozilla_check_version(version:version, path:path, product:'firefox', esr:TRUE, fix:'78.14', min:'78.0.0', severity:SECURITY_WARNING);
VendorProductVersionCPE
mozillafirefox_esrcpe:/a:mozilla:firefox_esr

CVSS2

6.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS3

8.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

AI Score

9.1

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.004

Percentile

74.7%