CVE-2022-40958 Vulnerability Details

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CVE-2022-40958 Metadata Quick Info

CVE Published: 22/12/2022 | CVE Updated: 03/08/2024 | CVE Year: 2022
Source: mozilla | Vendor: Mozilla | Product: Firefox ESR
Status : PUBLISHED

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CVE-2022-40958 Description

By injecting a cookie with certain special characters, an attacker on a shared subdomain which is not a secure context could set and thus overwrite cookies from a secure context, leading to session fixation and other attacks. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 102.3, Thunderbird < 102.3, and Firefox < 105.

Metrics

CVSS Version: 3.1 | Base Score: n/a
Vector: n/a

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Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-ID:
CWE Name: Bypassing Secure Context restriction for cookies with __Host and __Secure prefix
Source: Mozilla

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

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Source: NVD (National Vulnerability Database).