CVE-2022-40958

Public on 2022-09-26
Modified on 2024-02-07
Description

A flaw was found in Mozilla. The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes the issue that by injecting a cookie with certain special characters, an attacker on a shared subdomain, which is not a secure context,
could set and overwrite cookies from a secure context, leading to session fixation and other attacks.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
6.1
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 2 - Firefox Extra firefox 2023-08-21 21:01 ALAS2FIREFOX-2023-010
Amazon Linux 2 - Core thunderbird 2022-12-01 20:32 ALAS2-2022-1900

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N