CVE-2023-29545: mozilla firefox
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2023-29545 is a medium (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability in mozilla firefox. EPSS estimates a 0.58% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 46.8% of scored vulnerabilities.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 7 · Related 7Timeline
- 19-06-2023PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 11-12-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
Similar to CVE-2023-28163, this time when choosing 'Save Link As', suggested filenames containing environment variable names would have resolved those in the context of the current user. *This bug only affects Firefox and Thunderbird on Windows. Other versions of Firefox and Thunderbird are unaffected.* This vulnerability affects Firefox < 112, Firefox ESR < 102.10, and Thunderbird < 102.10.
CVSS metrics
3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated6.5MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- NVDNIST6.5MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS trend
Probability
0.58%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
47%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 0.58% on 19-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeNo weakness data has been published for this record.
Affected systems
Ubuntu5 products
- mozjs38All versions (No fix recorded)
- mozjs52All versions (No fix recorded)
- mozjs68All versions (No fix recorded)
- mozjs78All versions (No fix recorded)
- mozjs91All versions (No fix recorded)
Mozilla3 products
- firefox≥ unspecified, < 112 | < 112.0
- firefox_esr≥ unspecified, < 102.10 | < 102.10
- thunderbird≥ unspecified, < 102.10 | < 102.10
2 vendors · 8 products
References
9 links- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1823077Permissions Required
- www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-13/Vendor Advisory
- www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-14/Vendor Advisory
- www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-15/Vendor Advisory