CVE-2022-40959 — Insecure Storage of Sensitive Information in Mozilla Firefox
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV5.5
EPSS
0.1%
top 67.09%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 22
Description
During iframe navigation, certain pages did not have their FeaturePolicy fully initialized leading to a bypass that leaked device permissions into untrusted subdocuments. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 102.3, Thunderbird < 102.3, and Firefox < 105.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages8 packages
🔴Vulnerability Details
4OSV▶
CVE-2022-40959: During iframe navigation, certain pages did not have their FeaturePolicy fully initialized leading to a bypass that leaked device permissions into unt↗2022-12-22
GHSA▶
GHSA-pc7h-fmrf-pp2j: During iframe navigation, certain pages did not have their FeaturePolicy fully initialized leading to a bypass that leaked device permissions into unt↗2022-12-22
CVEList▶
CVE-2022-40959: During iframe navigation, certain pages did not have their FeaturePolicy fully initialized leading to a bypass that leaked device permissions into unt↗2022-12-22
📋Vendor Advisories
7Debian▶
CVE-2022-40959: firefox - During iframe navigation, certain pages did not have their FeaturePolicy fully i...↗2022