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CVE-2023-4579

Persisted search terms were formatted as URLs

Description

Search queries in the default search engine could appear to have been the currently navigated URL if the search query itself was a well formed URL. This could have led to a site spoofing another if it had been maliciously set as the default search engine. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 117.

Timeline

  1. ID reserved

    By mozilla

  2. · 13 days later

    Published

  3. · 2 years later

    Record updated

Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2023-4579, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
NVDNVD · Modified3.1Low3.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
0.45% · top 60% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
CISA SSVC
Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.1.

Affected products

References

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