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.
References
Link | Resource |
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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1779993 | Issue Tracking Permissions Required |
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-40/ | Vendor Advisory |
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-41/ | Vendor Advisory |
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-42/ | Vendor Advisory |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mozilla
Published: 2022-12-22T00:00:00
Updated: 2022-12-22T00:00:00
Reserved: 2022-09-19T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2022-40958
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NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2022-12-22T20:15:39.080
Modified: 2023-01-04T03:50:20.257
Link: CVE-2022-40958
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CWE