CVE-2022-34469 — Improper Certificate Validation in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-295 — Improper Certificate Validation4 documents4 sources
Severity
8.1HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 80.84%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Mozilla FirefoxDebian Firefox
Timeline
PublishedDec 22

Description

When a TLS Certificate error occurs on a domain protected by the HSTS header, the browser should not allow the user to bypass the certificate error. On Firefox for Android, the user was presented with the option to bypass the error; this could only have been done by the user explicitly. *This bug only affects Firefox for Android. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 102.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.2

Affected Packages4 packages

▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified — 102
▶NVDmozilla/firefox< 102.0
▶mozillamozilla/firefox

🔴Vulnerability Details

1
GHSA
GHSA-454w-5cf7-2xqx: When a TLS Certificate error occurs on a domain protected by the HSTS header, the browser should not allow the user to bypass the certificate error↗2022-12-22
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Debian
CVE-2022-34469: firefox - When a TLS Certificate error occurs on a domain protected by the HSTS header, th...↗2022
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Mozilla
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2022-24: CVE-2022-34469↗
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