CVE-2022-40958
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-12-22 00:00
Modified
2024-08-03 12:28
Severity ?
Summary
By injecting a cookie with certain special characters, an attacker on a shared subdomain which is not a secure context could set and thus overwrite cookies from a secure context, leading to session fixation and other attacks. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 102.3, Thunderbird < 102.3, and Firefox < 105.
References
security@mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1779993Issue Tracking, Permissions Required
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-40/Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-41/Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-42/Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
MozillaFirefox ESR
MozillaThunderbird
MozillaFirefox
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