CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-40959

Insecure Storage of Sensitive Information

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:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

During iframe navigation, certain pages did not have their FeaturePolicy fully initialized leading to a bypass that leaked device permissions into untrusted subdocuments. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 102.3, Thunderbird < 102.3, and Firefox < 105.

Weakness

The product stores sensitive information without properly limiting read or write access by unauthorized actors.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Firefox Mozilla * 105.0 (excluding)
Firefox_esr Mozilla * 102.3 (excluding)
Thunderbird Mozilla * 102.3 (excluding)

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