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When downloading files through the Save As dialog on...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Jun 2, 2023 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 9, 2025

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

When downloading files through the Save As dialog on Windows with suggested filenames containing environment variable names, Windows would have resolved those in the context of the current user.
This bug only affects Firefox on Windows. Other versions of Firefox are unaffected.. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 111, Firefox ESR < 102.9, and Thunderbird < 102.9.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jun 2, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jun 2, 2023
Last updated Jan 9, 2025

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

EPSS score

0.076%
(35th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2023-28163

GHSA ID

GHSA-xwh8-4fp4-mvqf

Source code

No known source code

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