8.8
HIGH
CVE-2023-4047
Firefox Permission Tricking Notification Delay Vulnerability
Description

A bug in popup notifications delay calculation could have made it possible for an attacker to trick a user into granting permissions. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 116, Firefox ESR < 102.14, and Firefox ESR < 115.1.

INFO

Published Date :

Aug. 1, 2023, 3:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

Aug. 9, 2023, 9:15 p.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

5.9

Exploitability Score :

2.8
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2023-4047 has a 1 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2023-4047 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Mozilla firefox
2 Mozilla firefox_esr
1 Debian debian_linux
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

CVE-2023-40477 PoC by Wild-Pointer

Python

Updated: 2 months ago
25 stars 9 fork 9 watcher
Born at : Aug. 29, 2023, 4:29 p.m. This repo has been linked 2 different CVEs too.

Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2023-4047 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2023-4047 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Aug. 09, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00010.html [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Aug. 08, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00008.html [No Types Assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Aug. 07, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Changed Reference Type https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1839073 No Types Assigned https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1839073 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required
    Changed Reference Type https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5464 No Types Assigned https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5464 Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5469 No Types Assigned https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5469 Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-29/ No Types Assigned https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-29/ Vendor Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-30/ No Types Assigned https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-30/ Vendor Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-31/ No Types Assigned https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-31/ Vendor Advisory
    Added CWE NIST NVD-CWE-noinfo
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 116.0 *cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 102.0 up to (excluding) 102.14 *cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 115.0 up to (excluding) 115.1
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:12.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Aug. 07, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5469 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Aug. 04, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5464 [No Types Assigned]
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

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Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

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Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.28 }} 0.04%

score

0.69080

percentile

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