Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting firefox package, versions <101.0-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (37th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE318-FIREFOX-5513599
  • published23 Nov 2022
  • disclosed22 Dec 2022

Introduced: 23 Nov 2022

CVE-2022-31743  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.18 firefox to version 101.0-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream firefox package and not the firefox package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.18 relevant fixed versions and status.

Firefox's HTML parser did not correctly interpret HTML comment tags, resulting in an incongruity with other browsers. This could have been used to escape HTML comments on pages that put user-controlled data in them. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 101.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1