CVE-2023-52081

ewen-lbh/ffcss late-Unicode normalization vulnerability

MEDIUM
5.3
CVSS Score
Published: December 28, 2023 at 03:34 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 06:42 AM UTC
2 products affected across 1 vendorFirefox CssLbh Firefox Css

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Severity
MEDIUM5.3
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 0.2.0
Affected range stops below 0.2.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
v < 0.2.0
Affected range stops below 0.2.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

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CVSS

5.3MEDIUMGitHub_M
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
LOW
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-74CWE-176

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