Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities of Mozilla Firefox (less than Firefox 102.4ESR) have affected Synthetic Playback Agent 8.1.4.0-8.1.4 IF16 - 2022.4.0

Summary

Synthetic Playback Agent has addressed the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-42932, CVE-2022-40956, CVE-2022-42928, CVE-2022-42929, CVE-2022-42927, CVE-2022-40962, CVE-2022-40958, CVE-2022-40960, CVE-2022-40957, CVE-2022-40959

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-42932
**DESCRIPTION:**Mozilla Firefox and Firefox ESR could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a memory corruption flaw. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/238611 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-40956
**DESCRIPTION:**Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by an error when injecting an HTML base element and ignoring requests. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass the Content Security Policy’s base-uri settings restrictions.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/236607 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2022-42928
**DESCRIPTION:**Mozilla Firefox and Firefox ESR could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a memory corruption flaw. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/238609 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-42929
**DESCRIPTION:**Mozilla Firefox and Firefox ESR are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the handling window.print() events. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/238610 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-42927
**DESCRIPTION:**Mozilla Firefox and Firefox ESR could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a same-origin policy violation in the performance.getEntries() method. By persuading victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain cross-origin URL entries.
CVSS Base score: 8.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/238608 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2022-40962
**DESCRIPTION:**Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by memory safety bugs within the browser engine. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using unknown attack vectors to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable system or cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/236609 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-40958
**DESCRIPTION:**Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by an error when injecting a cookie with certain special characters. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass secure context restrictions to set and thus overwrite cookies from a secure context, leading to session fixation and other attacks.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/236605 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2022-40960
**DESCRIPTION:**Mozilla Firefox is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a use-after-free when parsing non-UTF-8 URLs in threads. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause browser to crash.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/236602 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-40957
**DESCRIPTION:**Mozilla Firefox is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by inconsistent data in instruction and data cache when creating wasm code. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause browser to crash.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/236608 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-40959
**DESCRIPTION:**Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by an error during iframe navigation. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass FeaturePolicy restrictions.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/236604 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Product Remediation

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Fix

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APM AM

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fixed in latest saas env

APM SaaS

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fixed in latest saas env

APM on-premis

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Synthetic Playback Agent 8.1.4 IF16

Download link: http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/quickorder?product=ibm%2FTivoli%2FIBM+Application+Performance+Management+Advanced&fixids=8.1.4.0-IBM-APM-SYNTHETIC-PLAYBACK-AGENT-IF0016&source=SAR

Readme: <https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6569903&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None