Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2022-38472
An attacker could have abused XSLT error handling to associate attacker-controlled content with another origin which was displayed in the address bar. This could have been used to fool the user into submitting data intended for the spoofed origin. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 102.2, Thunderbird < 91.13, Firefox ESR < 91.13, Firefox ESR < 102.2, and Firefox < 104.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.004 (27.8th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 28th percentile — 27.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions unspecified
- Mozilla Firefox Esr — versions unspecified
- Mozilla Thunderbird — versions unspecified
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-35/ (Vendor Advisory)
- www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-33/ (Vendor Advisory)
- www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-37/ (Vendor Advisory)
- www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-36/ (Vendor Advisory)
- www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-34/ (Vendor Advisory)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi (Permissions Required, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2022-38472?
- CVE-2022-38472 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, classified under Origin Validation Error. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2022-12-22.
- How severe is CVE-2022-38472?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.