FKIE_CVE-2022-40958

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2022-12-22 20:15 - Updated: 2025-04-15 15:15
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
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
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1779993Issue Tracking, Permissions Required
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-40/Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-41/Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-42/Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
mozilla firefox *
mozilla firefox_esr *
mozilla thunderbird *
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  "lastModified": "2025-04-15T15:15:59.087",
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