CVE-2023-52081

MEDIUM

ewen-lbh/firefox_css < 0.2.0 - Input Validation Bypass via Unicode Normalization

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

ffcss is a CLI interface to apply and configure Firefox CSS themes. Prior to 0.2.0, the function `lookupPreprocess()` is meant to apply some transformations to a string by disabling characters in the regex `[-_ .]`. However, due to the use of late Unicode normalization of type NFKD, it is possible to bypass that validation and re-introduce all the characters in the regex `[-_ .]`. The `lookupPreprocess()` can be easily bypassed with equivalent Unicode characters like U+FE4D (﹍), which would result in the omitted U+005F (_), for instance. The `lookupPreprocess()` function is only ever used to search for themes loosely (case insensitively, while ignoring dashes, underscores and dots), so the actual security impact is classified as low. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.2.0. There are no known workarounds.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0052
EPSS Percentile 40.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-176 CWE-74
Status published
Products (2)
ewen-lbh/ffcss 0 - 0.2.0Go
ewen-lbh/firefox_css < 0.2.0
Published Dec 28, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026