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Fencer Vulns
high 8.1

CVE-2023-25734 json

After downloading a Windows <code>.url</code> shortcut from the local filesystem, an attacker could supply a remote path that would lead to…

published 2023-06-02 3 y ago modified 2026-10-24 16 d ago also EUVD-2023-29641

cvss
8.1
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.8%
EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 56%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

After downloading a Windows <code>.url</code> shortcut from the local filesystem, an attacker could supply a remote path that would lead to unexpected network requests from the operating system. This also had the potential to leak NTLM credentials to the resource.<br>*This bug only affects Firefox on Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 110, Thunderbird < 102.8, and Firefox ESR < 102.8.

Patch / fix

  • Mozilla Firefox 110
  • Mozilla Thunderbird 102.8
  • Mozilla Firefox ESR 102.8
  • MozillaThunderbird SLE Workstation Extension 15 SP4, SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP4, openSUSE Leap 15.4 102.8.0-150200.8.105.2
  • MozillaFirefox SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES for SAP 12 SP4, SLES 12 SP5 +6 more 102.8.0-112.150.1
  • MozillaFirefox SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES for SAP 15 SP2, SLES 15 SP3-LTSS +9 more 102.8.0-150200.152.78.1
  • MozillaFirefox SLES for SAP 15 SP1, SLES 15 SP1-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP1-LTSS 102.8.0-150000.150.76.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2023:0599-1SUSE-SU-2023:0469-1SUSE-SU-2023:0466-1SUSE-SU-2023:0461-1

  • firefox-esr openSUSE Tumbleweed 128.5.1-1.1
  • MozillaThunderbird openSUSE Tumbleweed 102.8.0-1.1
  • MozillaFirefox openSUSE Tumbleweed 110.0.1-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1openSUSE-SU-2024:12713-1openSUSE-SU-2024:12753-1

  • firefox-esr Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22, Alpine 3.21 +3 more 102.8.0-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2023-25734

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2023-25734 updated cvss 6.1

Mozilla: Opening local .url files could cause unexpected network loads

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 firefox, thunderbird Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 firefox, thunderbird Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 firefox, thunderbird Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 firefox, firefox-x11, thunderbird
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
21 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.78% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 56% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • bugzilla.mozilla.org https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1784451 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
NVD 3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CNA 3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Affected products

  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Mozilla Thunderbird
  • Mozilla Firefox ESR

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-601 URL Redirection to Untrusted Site

References

Sources

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