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CVE-2022-38472

Public on 2022-09-30
Modified on 2023-06-12
Description

A flaw was found in Mozilla. The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes the issue of an attacker abusing XSLT error handling to associate attacker-controlled content with another origin, which was displayed in the address bar. This issue could be used to fool the user into submitting data intended for the spoofed origin.

Severity
Important
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CVSS v3 Base Score
7.5
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 2 - Firefox Extra firefox 2023-08-21 21:01 ALAS2FIREFOX-2023-012
Amazon Linux 2 - Core thunderbird 2022-09-30 07:04 ALAS2-2022-1855

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD CVSSv3 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

References

Red Hat: CVE-2022-38472 Mitre: CVE-2022-38472 FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity