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USN-5726-1 (UBUNTU-CVE-2022-40674)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2022-11-16 13:25 – Updated: 2026-04-27 14:11 – Source website
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Summary
firefox vulnerabilities
Details

Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, spoof the contents of the addressbar, bypass security restrictions, cross-site tracing or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-45403, CVE-2022-45404, CVE-2022-45405, CVE-2022-45406, CVE-2022-45407, CVE-2022-45408, CVE-2022-45409, CVE-2022-45410, CVE-2022-45411, CVE-2022-45413, CVE-2022-40674, CVE-2022-45418, CVE-2022-45419, CVE-2022-45420, CVE-2022-45421)

Armin Ebert discovered that Firefox did not properly manage while resolving file symlink. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted weblink, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-45412)

Jefferson Scher and Jayateertha Guruprasad discovered that Firefox did not properly sanitize the HTML download file extension under certain circumstances. If a user were tricked into downloading and executing malicious content, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the programs. (CVE-2022-45415)

Erik Kraft, Martin Schwarzl, and Andrew McCreight discovered that Firefox incorrectly handled keyboard events. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a timing side-channel attack and possibly figure out which keys are being pressed. (CVE-2022-45416)

Kagami discovered that Firefox did not detect Private Browsing Mode correctly. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information about Private Browsing Mode. (CVE-2022-45417)

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  "id": "USN-5726-1",
  "modified": "2026-04-27T14:11:29Z",
  "published": "2022-11-16T13:25:42Z",
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    "UBUNTU-CVE-2022-45420",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2022-45421"
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}



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  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.