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.

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Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-3121-1 firefox-esr security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-3123-1 thunderbird security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-5237-1 firefox-esr security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-5238-1 thunderbird security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-44204 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-5649-1 Firefox vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-5724-1 Thunderbird vulnerabilities
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Tue, 15 Apr 2025 15:15:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published:

Updated: 2025-04-15T14:55:52.463Z

Reserved: 2022-09-19T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-40958

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T12:28:42.952Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-12-22T20:15:39.080

Modified: 2025-04-15T15:15:59.087

Link: CVE-2022-40958

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2022-09-20T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-40958 - Bugzilla

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