Firefox Alert
2408Warning Date
Severity Level
Warning Number
Target Sector
1 August, 2023
● High
2023-5698
All
Description:
Mozilla has released security updates to address a vulnerability in the following products:
- Firefox
- Firefox ESR
Threats:
An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by doing the following:
- Bypassed cross-origin restrictions
- Potential permissions request bypass via clickjacking
- Out-of-bound Memory Read
- Race Condition
- Stack Buffer Overflow
- Memory corruption
- Process Crashing
Best practice and Recommendations:
The CERT team encourages users to review Mozilla security advisory and update the affected products:
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2023-31/
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2023-30/
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2023-29/
*Firefox supports automatic updating to the latest available version.
- Update instructions (Firefox):
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/update-firefox-latest-release