CVE-2023-4579 — Search queries in the default search engine could appear to have been the curren

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 affec

01What is this vulnerability?

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.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Mozilla	Firefox	unspecified

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-09-11T08:01:28.695Z
• Last modified: 2025-12-18T15:23:13.318Z

09References

• bugzilla.mozilla.org — https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1842766
• security.gentoo.org — https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-10
• www.mozilla.org — https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-34/