Mozilla Firefox up to 115.23.1 Popup Notification permission

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in Mozilla Firefox. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Popup Notification Handler. Such manipulation leads to permission. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2023-4047. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Mozilla Firefox (Web Browser). Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the component Popup Notification Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a permission vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-275. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

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.

The weakness was released 08/01/2023. The advisory is shared for download at mozilla.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2023-4047 since 08/01/2023. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 06/20/2025). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1222.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 239763 (TencentOS Server 4: thunderbird (TSSA-2024:0450)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 116 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at mozilla.org.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (239763). VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

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Type

• Web Browser

Vendor

• Mozilla

Name

• Firefox

Version

• 0.2
• 0.3
• 0.4
• 0.5
• 0.6
• 0.7
• 0.7.1
• 0.7.2
• 0.7.3
• 0.8
• 0.9
• 0.9.1
• 0.9.2
• 0.9.2.1
• 0.9.3
• 0.9.4
• 0.9.4.1
• 0.9.5
• 0.9.6
• 0.9.7
• 0.9.8
• 0.9.9
• 0.9.35
• 0.9.48
• 0.10
• 0.10.1
• 1.0
• 1.0.1
• 1.0.2
• 1.0.3
• 1.0.4
• 1.0.5
• 1.0.6
• 1.0.7
• 1.0.8
• 1.0.9
• 1.1
• 1.1.8
• 1.2
• 1.2.1
• 1.3
• 1.3.1
• 1.4
• 1.4.1
• 1.4.2
• 1.4.4
• 1.5
• 1.5.0.1
• 1.5.0.2
• 1.5.0.3
• 1.5.0.4
• 1.5.0.5
• 1.5.0.6
• 1.5.0.7
• 1.5.0.8
• 1.5.0.9
• 1.5.0.10
• 1.5.0.11
• 1.5.0.12
• 1.5.0.14
• 1.5.1
• 1.5.2
• 1.5.3
• 1.5.4
• 1.5.5
• 1.5.6
• 1.5.7
• 1.5.8
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.7.1
• 1.7.2
• 1.7.3
• 1.8
• 2
• 2.0
• 2.0 .4
• 2.0 8
• 2.0.0.1
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• 2.0.0.3
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• 2.0.0.18
• 2.0.0.19
• 2.0.0.20
• 2.0.1
• 2.0.4
• 2.0.5
• 2.0.6
• 2.0.7
• 2.0.9
• 2.0.10
• 2.1
• 2.2
• 2.5
• 3
• 3.0
• 3.0.1
• 3.0.2
• 3.0.3
• 3.0.4
• 3.0.5
• 3.0.6
• 3.0.7
• 3.0.8
• 3.0.9
• 3.0.10
• 3.0.11
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• 3.0.13
• 3.0.14
• 3.0.15
• 3.0.16
• 3.0.17
• 3.0.19
• 3.0beta5
• 3.1
• 3.5
• 3.5.1
• 3.5.2
• 3.5.3
• 3.5.4
• 3.5.5
• 3.5.6
• 3.5.7
• 3.5.8
• 3.5.9
• 3.5.10
• 3.5.11
• 3.5.12
• 3.5.13
• 3.5.14
• 3.5.15
• 3.5.16
• 3.5.17
• 3.5.18
• 3.5.19
• 3.6
• 3.6.1
• 3.6.2
• 3.6.3
• 3.6.4
• 3.6.6
• 3.6.7
• 3.6.8
• 3.6.9
• 3.6.10
• 3.6.11
• 3.6.12
• 3.6.13
• 3.6.14
• 3.6.15
• 3.6.16
• 3.6.17
• 3.6.18
• 3.6.19
• 3.6.20
• 3.6.21
• 3.6.22
• 3.6.26
• 3.6.28
• 3.7
• 3.11.5
• 4.0
• 4.0.1
• 5.0
• 5.0.1
• 6.0
• 6.0.1
• 6.0.2
• 7.0
• 7.0.1
• 8.0
• 8.0 for Mac
• 8.0.1
• 8.1
• 8.2
• 9.0
• 9.0.1
• 9.1
• 10.0
• 10.0.1
• 10.0.2
• 10.0.3
• 10.0.4
• 10.0.5
• 10.0.7
• 10.1
• 10.2
• 11.0
• 12.0
• 13.0
• 14
• 14.0.1
• 15
• 15.0.1 (downgrade)
• 15.0a1
• 16
• 16.0.1
• 16.0.2
• 17.0
• 17.0.1
• 17.0.2
• 17.0.3
• 17.0.4
• 17.0.5
• 17.0.6
• 18.0
• 19.0
• 19.0.1
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• 20.0
• 20.0.1
• 21.0
• 22.0
• 23.0
• 23.0.1
• 24.0
• 24.0.1
• 24.0.2
• 24.1.0
• 24.1.1
• 24.2
• 24.3
• 24.4
• 24.5
• 24.7
• 25
• 25.0
• 25.0.1
• 26
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• 28
• 28.0
• 28.0.1
• 29.0
• 29.0.1
• 30.0
• 31
• 31.0
• 31.1.0
• 31.1.1
• 31.2
• 31.3.0
• 32.0
• 33
• 33.0
• 34
• 34.0
• 34.0.5
• 35
• 36
• 36.0.3
• 36.0.4
• 37
• 37.0
• 37.0.1
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• 38
• 38.0
• 39
• 39.0
• 39.0.3
• 40
• 40.0.3
• 41
• 41.0
• 41.0.1
• 42
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• 43.0
• 44
• 44.0.2
• 45
• 45.0
• 45.6
• 47.0
• 48
• 49
• 49.0
• 49.0.2
• 50
• 50.0.1
• 50.0.2
• 50.1
• 51
• 51.0.3
• 52
• 52.6
• 52.8
• 53
• 54.0
• 55
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• 57
• 57.0.1
• 58.0
• 58.0.1
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• 59.0.1
• 60
• 60.0
• 60.0.2
• 61
• 62.0
• 62.0.3
• 63.0
• 64
• 64.0
• 65
• 65.0.0
• 65.0.1
• 66
• 66.0
• 67
• 67.0
• 67.0.2
• 67.0.3
• 67.0.4
• 68.0
• 68.0.2
• 68.7
• 68.11
• 68.12
• 69.0
• 69.0.1
• 70
• 70.0
• 71
• 71.0
• 72
• 72.0
• 74.0
• 74.0.0
• 74.0.1
• 75.0
• 76
• 76.0
• 77
• 77.0
• 78.0
• 78.4
• 78.7
• 78.10.1
• 80.0
• 81.0
• 82
• 82.0
• 83.0
• 84.0
• 85.0
• 86.0
• 87.0
• 88.0
• 89.0
• 89.0.1
• 90.0
• 91.0
• 91.0.1
• 91.7
• 91.8
• 92.0
• 93.0
• 94.0
• 95.0
• 96
• 97
• 98
• 99
• 100
• 101
• 102
• 102.2
• 102.6
• 103
• 104
• 105
• 106
• 107
• 108
• 109
• 110
• 110.1
• 111
• 112
• 113
• 114
• 115
• 115.0.2
• 115.6
• 115.9
• 115.23
• 115.23.1

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.mozilla.org/
• Product: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

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