CVE-2022-40958

Published Dec 22, 2022

Last updated 2 years ago

Overview

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.
Source
security@mozilla.org
NVD status
Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Primary
Base score
6.5
Impact score
3.6
Exploitability score
2.8
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Severity
MEDIUM

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-74

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations