CVE-2022-31743
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-12-22 00:00
Modified
2024-08-03 07:26
Severity ?
Summary
Firefox's HTML parser did not correctly interpret HTML comment tags, resulting in an incongruity with other browsers. This could have been used to escape HTML comments on pages that put user-controlled data in them. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 101.
References
security@mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1747388Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-20/Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
MozillaFirefox
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