CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-40958

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')

Published: Dec 22, 2022 | Modified: Jan 04, 2023
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
6.1 MODERATE
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

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.

Weakness

The product constructs all or part of a command, data structure, or record using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify how it is parsed or interpreted when it is sent to a downstream component.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Firefox Mozilla * 105.0 (excluding)
Firefox_esr Mozilla * 102.3 (excluding)
Thunderbird Mozilla * 102.3 (excluding)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat thunderbird-0:102.3.0-3.el7_9 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat firefox-0:102.3.0-6.el7_9 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat firefox-0:102.3.0-6.el8_6 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat thunderbird-0:102.3.0-3.el8_6 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Update Services for SAP Solutions RedHat firefox-0:102.3.0-6.el8_1 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Update Services for SAP Solutions RedHat thunderbird-0:102.3.0-3.el8_1 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support RedHat firefox-0:102.3.0-6.el8_2 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support RedHat thunderbird-0:102.3.0-3.el8_2 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support RedHat firefox-0:102.3.0-6.el8_4 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support RedHat thunderbird-0:102.3.0-3.el8_4 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 RedHat firefox-0:102.3.0-6.el9_0 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 RedHat thunderbird-0:102.3.0-3.el9_0 *
Firefox Ubuntu bionic *
Firefox Ubuntu focal *
Firefox Ubuntu trusty *
Firefox Ubuntu upstream *
Firefox Ubuntu xenial *
Thunderbird Ubuntu bionic *
Thunderbird Ubuntu focal *
Thunderbird Ubuntu jammy *
Thunderbird Ubuntu trusty *
Thunderbird Ubuntu upstream *
Thunderbird Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

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