CVE-2022-34483

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Last Modified on: 12/30/2022 06:18:00 PM UTC

CVE-2022-34483

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

Certain versions of Firefox from Mozilla contain the following vulnerability:

An attacker who could have convinced a user to drag and drop an image to a filesystem could have manipulated the resulting filename to contain an executable extension, and by extension potentially tricked the user into executing malicious code. While very similar, this is a separate issue from CVE-2022-34482. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 102.

CVE-2022-34483 has been assigned by secur[email protected] to track the vulnerability - currently rated as HIGH severity.
Affected Vendor/Software: Mozilla - Firefox version < 102

CVSS3 Score: 8.8 - HIGH

Attack Vector ^ⓘ	Attack Complexity	Privileges Required	User Interaction
NETWORK	LOW	NONE	REQUIRED
Scope	Confidentiality Impact	Integrity Impact	Availability Impact
UNCHANGED	HIGH	HIGH	HIGH

CVE References

Description	Tags ^ⓘ	Link
Access Denied	bugzilla.mozilla.org text/html	MISC bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1335845
Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 102 — Mozilla	www.mozilla.org text/html	MISC www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-24/

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Related QID Numbers

198849 Ubuntu Security Notification for Firefox Vulnerabilities (USN-5504-1)
376705 Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities (MFSA2022-24)
502853 Alpine Linux Security Update for firefox
710582 Gentoo Linux Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202208-08)
752583 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for MozillaFirefox (SUSE-SU-2022:3273-1)
752590 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for MozillaFirefox (SUSE-SU-2022:3272-1)
752611 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for MozillaFirefox (SUSE-SU-2022:3396-1)

Known Affected Configurations (CPE V2.3)

Type	Vendor	Product	Version	Update	Edition	Language
Application	Mozilla	Firefox	All	All	All	All

cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:

No vendor comments have been submitted for this CVE

Social Mentions

Source	Title	Posted (UTC)
@RedPacketSec	Mozilla Firefox code execution \| CVE-2022-34483 - redpacketsecurity.com/mozilla-firefo… #CVE #Vulnerability #OSINT #ThreatIntel #Cyber	2022-06-29 09:02:16
/r/k12cybersecurity	MS-ISAC CYBERSECURITY ADVISORY - Multiple Vulnerabilities in Mozilla Products Could Allow for Arbitrary Code Execution - PATCH: NOW	2022-06-30 13:31:17
/r/netcve	CVE-2022-34483	2022-12-22 20:38:38