🛡️ CVE-2023-29541
🟠 CVSS 8.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-116 NVD
8.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Firefox did not properly handle downloads of files ending in .desktop, which can be interpreted to run attacker-controlled commands.
*This bug only affects Firefox for Linux on certain Distributions. Other operating systems are unaffected, and Mozilla is unable to enumerate all affected Linux Distributions.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 112, Focus for Android < 112, Firefox ESR < 102.10, Firefox for Android < 112, and Thunderbird < 102.10.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-116
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-06-02
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2025-01-10
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
firefox 112.0
firefox-esr 102.10
focus 112.0
thunderbird 102.10

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