CVE-2023-37208

Publication date 5 July 2023

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

When opening Diagcab files, Firefox did not warn the user that these files may contain malicious code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 115, Firefox ESR < 102.13, and Thunderbird < 102.13.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
firefox	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 115.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.3
	18.04 LTS bionic	Ignored end of standard support
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored end of standard support
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of standard support
thunderbird	23.04 lunar	Fixed 1:102.13.0+build1-0ubuntu0.23.04.1
	22.10 kinetic	Fixed 1:102.13.0+build1-0ubuntu0.22.10.1
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 1:102.13.0+build1-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 1:102.13.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Ignored end of standard support
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored end of standard support
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of standard support

Notes

tyhicks

mozjs contains a copy of the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine

mdeslaur

starting with Ubuntu 22.04, the firefox package is just a script that installs the Firefox snap

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H