CVE-2022-40958

Public on 2022-09-26
Modified on 2024-02-07
Description
A flaw was found in Mozilla. The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes the issue that by injecting a cookie with certain special characters, an attacker on a shared subdomain, which is not a secure context,
could set and overwrite cookies from a secure context, leading to session fixation and other attacks.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
6.1
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 2 - Firefox Extra firefox 2023-08-21 ALAS2FIREFOX-2023-010 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2 - Core thunderbird 2022-12-01 ALAS2-2022-1900 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N