CVE-2023-29545

Mozilla: Windows Save As dialog resolved environment variables

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

6.1

CVSS 3.1

Review impact separately from score.

Published · April 11, 2023

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:

Similar to CVE-2023-28163, this time when choosing 'Save Link As', suggested filenames containing environment variable names would have resolved those in the context of the current user.

This bug only affects Firefox on Windows. Other versions of Firefox are unaffected.

Statement

Red Hat Product Security rates the severity of this flaw as determined by the Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 6.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CWE-428 · Unquoted Search Path or Element