Tracker / CVE-2023-29542
CVE-2023-29542
Critical 9.8
A newline in a filename could have been used to bypass the file extension security mechanisms that replace malicious file extensions such as .lnk with .download. This could have led to accidental execution of malicious code. *This bug only affects Firefox and Thunderbird on Windows. Other versions of Firefox and Thunderbird are unaffected.* This vulnerability affects Firefox < 112, Firefox ESR < 102.10, and Thunderbird < 102.10.
Affected products and versions
| mozilla | firefox · … → 112.0 |
|---|---|
| mozilla | firefox_esr · … → 102.10 |
| mozilla | thunderbird · … → 102.10 |
Analysis
This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.