Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2022-22759
If a document created a sandboxed iframe without <code>allow-scripts</code>, and subsequently appended an element to the iframe's document that e.g. had a JavaScript event handler - the event handler would have run despite the iframe's sandbox. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 97, Thunderbird < 91.6, and Firefox ESR < 91.6.
EPSS: 0.007 (51.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 9.6 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H.
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions unspecified
- Mozilla Firefox Esr — versions unspecified
- Mozilla Firefox_esr
- Mozilla Thunderbird — versions unspecified
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- security@mozilla.org (Vendor Advisory)
- security@mozilla.org (Vendor Advisory)
- security@mozilla.org (Vendor Advisory)
- security@mozilla.org (Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2022-22759?
- CVE-2022-22759 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, classified under Protection Mechanism Failure. CVSS score: 9.6/10. Published 2022-12-22.
- How severe is CVE-2022-22759?
- Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.6 out of 10.