Authorization Bypass Affecting Firefox package, versions [0,102.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (45th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FIREFOX-3030623
  • published22 Sept 2022
  • disclosed20 Sept 2022
  • creditAxel Chong

Introduced: 20 Sep 2022

CVE-2022-40958  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-285  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Firefox to version 102.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Authorization Bypass by injecting a cookie with certain special characters, allowing an attacker on a shared subdomain, which is not a secure context, to set and overwrite cookies from a secure context.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1