CVE-2023-4579 - Persisted search terms were formatted as URLs

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LOW

Persisted search terms were formatted as URLs

Published Sep 11, 2023

3.1

LOW

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 0.45%

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.

Affected products

Vendor Mozilla Product Firefox Default
n/a
- Version
  unspecified
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  <117

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor

Product

Default status

Versions

Mozilla

Firefox

n/a

Version	Status	Constraints
unspecified	affected	<117

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (3)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1842766
Issue TrackingPermissions Required
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-10
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-34/
Vendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1842766		Issue TrackingPermissions Required
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-10
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-34/		Vendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mozilla

Published Sep 11, 2023

Updated Dec 18, 2025

Reserved Aug 29, 2023

Link CVE-2023-4579

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated Oct 11, 2024

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2023-4579

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2023-4579