CVE-2022-40958
6.5
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.26%
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.
How to fix CVE-2022-40958
To remediate CVE-2022-40958, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/firefox-esr—upgrade to 102.3.0esr-1~deb11u1 or later
- —upgrade to 1:102.3.0-1~deb11u1 or later
Is CVE-2022-40958 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.3%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 102.3.0esr-1~deb11u1
- from 0, < 1:102.3.0-1~deb11u1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |