VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2022-40958
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.
MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 1.10%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.10%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- EPSS
- 1.10% probability · 64th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-74
- Affected
- mozilla/firefox · mozilla/firefox esr · mozilla/thunderbird
- Source
- security@mozilla.org
References
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1779993Issue Tracking, Permissions Required
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-40/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-41/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-42/Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1779993Issue Tracking, Permissions Required
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-40/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-41/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-42/Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.