CVE-2022-40959Insecure 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
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

CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified105
NVDmozilla/firefox< 105.0
CVEListV5mozilla/firefox_esrunspecified102.3
NVDmozilla/firefox_esr< 102.3
CVEListV5mozilla/thunderbirdunspecified102.3

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
OSV
CVE-2022-40959: During iframe navigation, certain pages did not have their FeaturePolicy fully initialized leading to a bypass that leaked device permissions into unt2022-12-22
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 unt2022-12-22
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 unt2022-12-22
OSV
thunderbird vulnerabilities2022-11-11

📋Vendor Advisories

7
Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities2022-11-11
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities2022-09-30
Red Hat
Mozilla: Bypassing FeaturePolicy restrictions on transient pages2022-09-20
Debian
CVE-2022-40959: firefox - During iframe navigation, certain pages did not have their FeaturePolicy fully i...2022
Mozilla
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2022-42: CVE-2022-40959
CVE-2022-40959 — Mozilla Firefox vulnerability | cvebase