QID 377600

Date Published: 2022-09-21

QID 377600: Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities (MFSA2022-40)

Firefox is a free and open-source web browser developed for Windows, OS X, and Linux, with a mobile version for Android.

Mozilla Firefox is prone to
CVE-2022-40959: Bypassing FeaturePolicy restrictions on transient pages
CVE-2022-40960: Data-race when parsing non-UTF-8 URLs in threads
CVE-2022-40958: Bypassing Secure Context restriction for cookies with __Host and __Secure prefix
CVE-2022-40961: Stack-buffer overflow when initializing Graphics
CVE-2022-40956: Content-Security-Policy base-uri bypass
CVE-2022-40957: Incoherent instruction cache when building WASM on ARM64
CVE-2022-40962: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 105 and Firefox ESR 102.3

Affected Products:
Prior to Firefox 105

QID Detection Logic (Authenticated) :
This checks for vulnerable version of Firefox browser.


Note: The preceding description block is extracted directly from the security advisory. Using automation, we have attempted to clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to a security breach or could affect integrity, availability, and confidentiality.

  • CVSS V3 rated as Critical - 8.6 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 5.4 severity.
    • Solution
    Vendor has released fix to address these vulnerabilities. Refer to MFSA2022-40 or later
    Vendor References

    CVEs related to QID 377600

    CVE-2022-40956 | CVE-2022-40962 | CVE-2022-40960 | CVE-2022-40959 | CVE-2022-40957 | CVE-2022-40958 | CVE-2022-40961 |
    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    MFSA2022-40 URL Logo www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-40/
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