ewen-lbh/ffcss late-Unicode normalization vulnerability
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · Low · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub.
Summary
ffcss is a CLI interface to apply and configure Firefox CSS themes. Prior to 0.2.0, the function `lookupPreprocess()` is meant to apply some transformations to a string by disabling characters in the regex `[-_ .]`. However, due to the use of late Unicode normalization of type NFKD, it is possible to bypass that validation and re-introduce all the characters in the regex `[-_ .]`. The `lookupPreprocess()` can be easily bypassed with equivalent Unicode characters like U+FE4D (﹍), which would result in the omitted U+005F (_), for instance. The `lookupPreprocess()` function is only ever used to search for themes loosely (case insensitively, while ignoring dashes, underscores and dots), so the actual security impact is classified as low. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.2.0. There are no known workarounds.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ewen-lbh | ffcss | before 0.2.0 | 0.2.0 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | github.com/ewen-lbh/ffcss (Go) | before 0.2.0 | 0.2.0 | Patch available | GHSA-wpmx-564x-h2mh |
- ffcss Vendorewen-lbh Affected before 0.2.0 Fixed in 0.2.0 Patch available CNA
- github.com/ewen-lbh/ffcss (Go) Vendor— Affected before 0.2.0 Fixed in 0.2.0 Patch available GHSA-wpmx-564x-h2mh
Remediation
- Fix · CNA ffcss (ewen-lbh) Fixed in 0.2.0
- Fix · GHSA-wpmx-564x-h2mh github.com/ewen-lbh/ffcss (Go) Fixed in 0.2.0 Advisory →
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2023-52081
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-wpmx-564x-h2mh
References
Sources
- CVE-2023-52081 · CVE Program
- CVE-2023-52081 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-wpmx-564x-h2mh · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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