Insufficient validation in the Drag and Drop API in conjunction with social engineering…
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CISA ADP. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
Insufficient validation in the Drag and Drop API in conjunction with social engineering, may have allowed an attacker to trick end-users into creating a shortcut to local system files. This could have been leveraged to execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 115.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Firefox (Mozilla) Fixed in 115
Fixed in the same release
Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.
- Release ·
Mozilla Firefox 115
13 records Highest priority Priority HIGH 2 HIGH, 3 MEDIUM, 8 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2023-18834 Use after free in Mozilla FirefoxPriority HIGH 73
- TI-2023-18841 Unrestricted file upload in Mozilla FirefoxPriority HIGH 69
- TI-2023-18840 A website could have obscured the fullscreen notification by using a URL with a scheme…Priority MEDIUM 62
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2023-37203
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-r39w-v7w4-p94f
References
More Mozilla Firefox vulnerabilities
- TI-2024-08981 Use after free in Mozilla Firefox KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2022-09832 Use after free in Mozilla Firefox KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.6
- TI-2019-08769 Improper input validation in Mozilla Firefox ESR KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
- TI-2010-03577 Mozilla Firefox 3.5.x through 3.5.14 and 3.6.x through 3.6.11, Thunderbird 3.1.6 before… KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2023-04799 Out-of-bounds write in Google Chrome KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2023-04477 Out-of-bounds write in Google Chrome KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
Sources
- CVE-2023-37203 · CVE Program
- CVE-2023-37203 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-r39w-v7w4-p94f · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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