🛡️ CVE-2023-4052
🟡 CVSS 6.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-59 NVD
6.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

The Firefox updater created a directory writable by non-privileged users. When uninstalling Firefox, any files in that directory would be recursively deleted with the permissions of the uninstalling user account. This could be combined with creation of a junction (a form of symbolic link) to allow arbitrary file deletion controlled by the non-privileged user. *This bug only affects Firefox on Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected.* This vulnerability affects Firefox < 116, Firefox ESR < 115.1, and Thunderbird < 115.1.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE CWE-59
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-08-01
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-11-21
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
firefox 116.0
firefox-esr 115.1

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