CVE-2022-40958

Name
CVE-2022-40958
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.
NVD Severity
medium
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
MISC https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-42/
MISC https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1779993
MISC https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-41/
MISC https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-40/

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* thunderbird >= None < 102.3
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* firefox_esr >= None < 102.3
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* firefox >= None < 105.0

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status