CVE-2022-40956

State: Published
Severity: 6.1 Medium
Published: Dec 22, 2022
Updated: Apr 15, 2025
Reserved: Sep 19, 2022

Description

When injecting an HTML base element, some requests would ignore the CSP's base-uri settings and accept the injected element's base instead. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 102.3, Thunderbird < 102.3, and Firefox < 105.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.1 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Firefox ESRMozilla	before 102.3Affected
ThunderbirdMozilla	before 102.3Affected
FirefoxMozilla	before 105Affected

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-40/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-41/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-42/
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1770094

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