⚠ Exploited in the wild
Exploitation observed in the wild. Not yet on CISA KEV.

CVE-2022-1529Prototype Pollution in Mozilla Firefox

Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
4.3%
top 11.12%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
Exploited in wild
Active exploitation observed
Timeline
PublishedDec 22

Description

An attacker could have sent a message to the parent process where the contents were used to double-index into a JavaScript object, leading to prototype pollution and ultimately attacker-controlled JavaScript executing in the privileged parent process. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 91.9.1, Firefox < 100.0.2, Firefox for Android < 100.3.0, and Thunderbird < 91.9.1.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages8 packages

CVEListV5mozilla/firefox_for_androidunspecified100.3.0
CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified100.0.2
NVDmozilla/firefox< 100.0.2+1
CVEListV5mozilla/firefox_esrunspecified91.9.1
NVDmozilla/firefox_esr< 91.9.1

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-grr5-5v7v-g4c4: An attacker could have sent a message to the parent process where the contents were used to double-index into a JavaScript object, leading to prototyp2022-12-22
OSV
CVE-2022-1529: An attacker could have sent a message to the parent process where the contents were used to double-index into a JavaScript object, leading to prototyp2022-12-22
CVEList
CVE-2022-1529: An attacker could have sent a message to the parent process where the contents were used to double-index into a JavaScript object, leading to prototyp2022-12-22
VulnCheck
Mozilla Firefox Improperly Controlled Modification of Object Prototype Attributes ('Prototype Pollution')2022

📋Vendor Advisories

5
Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities2022-05-25
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities2022-05-23
Red Hat
Mozilla: Untrusted input used in JavaScript object indexing, leading to prototype pollution2022-05-20
Debian
CVE-2022-1529: firefox - An attacker could have sent a message to the parent process where the contents w...2022
Mozilla
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2022-19: CVE-2022-1529

🕵️Threat Intelligence

2
Talos
Vulnerability Spotlight: Lansweeper directory traversal and cross-site scripting vulnerabilities2022-12-01
Talos
Vulnerability Spotlight: Lansweeper directory traversal and cross-site scripting vulnerabilities2022-12-01
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