CVE-2023-4579

Persisted search terms were formatted as URLs

EPSS 0.4%

Vexday Risk Score

3Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS —EPSS 0.4%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

11 Sep 2023Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

Search queries in the default search engine could appear to have been the currently navigated URL if the search query itself was a well formed URL. This could have led to a site spoofing another if it had been maliciously set as the default search engine. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 117.

Affected products

Mozilla · Firefox

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References

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1842766 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-10 https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-34/