CVE-2022-45411 — Cross-site Scripting in Mozilla Firefox
Severity
6.1MEDIUMNVD
OSV8.1OSV6.5
EPSS
0.2%
top 54.81%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 22
Latest updateFeb 6
Description
Cross-Site Tracing occurs when a server will echo a request back via the Trace method, allowing an XSS attack to access to authorization headers and cookies inaccessible to JavaScript (such as cookies protected by HTTPOnly). To mitigate this attack, browsers placed limits on fetch() and XMLHttpRequest; however some webservers have implemented non-standard headers such as X-Http-Method-Override that override the HTTP method, and made this attack possible again. Thunderbird has applied the same mi…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 2.7
Affected Packages9 packages
🔴Vulnerability Details
5GHSA▶
GHSA-42wf-78r8-wp79: Cross-Site Tracing occurs when a server will echo a request back via the Trace method, allowing an XSS attack to access to authorization headers and c↗2022-12-22
CVEList▶
CVE-2022-45411: Cross-Site Tracing occurs when a server will echo a request back via the Trace method, allowing an XSS attack to access to authorization headers and c↗2022-12-22
OSV▶
CVE-2022-45411: Cross-Site Tracing occurs when a server will echo a request back via the Trace method, allowing an XSS attack to access to authorization headers and c↗2022-12-22
📋Vendor Advisories
7Debian▶
CVE-2022-45411: firefox - Cross-Site Tracing occurs when a server will echo a request back via the Trace m...↗2022