CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2023-25740 — Mozilla Firefox security vulnerability

High CVSS 8.8

After downloading a Windows <code>.scf</code> script from the local filesystem, an attacker could supply a remote path that would lead to unexpected network requests from the operating system. This also had the potential to leak NTLM credentials to the resource.<br>*This bug only affects Firefox for Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 110.

Severity
High
CVSS
8.8 (3.1)
Published
2023-06-02
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
browser
Weaknesses
CWE-522

Affected products

  • mozilla / firefox

Matched remediation archetype

Information disclosure and sensitive data exposure

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Check exposure

  • Trace sensitive data through responses, errors, logs, metrics, traces, caches, exports, files, backups, and client bundles.
  • Identify affected subjects, tenants, retention windows, access controls, and downstream copies without opening unnecessary sensitive records.
  • Review metadata, timing, status, length, and existence signals as well as direct content disclosure.

Remediate safely

  • Minimize collection and output, apply field-level authorization and redaction at a centralized boundary, and return generic external errors.
  • Remove secrets and sensitive data from logs, artifacts, URLs, caches, and client-side bundles; rotate credentials that may have been exposed.
  • Update the affected component and add synthetic-data tests for response, error, observability, and export paths.

Authoritative sources

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