CVE-2023-4579 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

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.

Published: 2023-09-11

Score: 3.1 Low

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

Mozilla

Firefox

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`unspecified`	affected	< 117

Configuration 1 [-]

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

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Ubuntu USN	USN-6320-1	Firefox vulnerabilities

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00128.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

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

History

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Title		Persisted search terms were formatted as URLs

Fri, 11 Oct 2024 21:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Mozilla Firefox

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2023-09-11T08:01:28.695Z

Updated: 2025-12-18T15:23:13.318Z

Reserved: 2023-08-29T03:36:51.046Z

Link: CVE-2023-4579

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T07:31:06.614Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-09-11T09:15:09.407

Modified: 2024-11-21T08:35:28.300

Link: CVE-2023-4579

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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