8.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
0.002 Low
EPSS
Percentile
64.9%
The version of Firefox installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 105.0. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2022-40 advisory.
During iframe navigation, certain pages did not have their FeaturePolicy fully initialized leading to a bypass that leaked device permissions into untrusted subdocuments. (CVE-2022-40959)
Concurrent use of the URL parser with non-UTF-8 data was not thread-safe. This could lead to a use-after- free causing a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2022-40960)
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. (CVE-2022-40958)
During startup, a graphics driver with an unexpected name could lead to a stack-buffer overflow causing a potentially exploitable crash. This issue only affects Firefox for Android. Other operating systems are not affected. (CVE-2022-40961)
When injecting an HTML base element, some requests would ignore the CSP’s base-uri settings and accept the injected element’s base instead. (CVE-2022-40956)
Inconsistent data in instruction and data cache when creating wasm code could lead to a potentially exploitable crash. This bug only affects Firefox on ARM64 platforms. (CVE-2022-40957)
Mozilla developers Nika Layzell, Timothy Nikkel, Jeff Muizelaar, Sebastian Hengst, Andreas Pehrson, and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 104 and Firefox ESR 102.2. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-40962)
Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory mfsa2022-40.
# The text itself is copyright (C) Mozilla Foundation.
##
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(165262);
script_version("1.11");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/01/30");
script_cve_id(
"CVE-2022-3266",
"CVE-2022-40956",
"CVE-2022-40957",
"CVE-2022-40958",
"CVE-2022-40959",
"CVE-2022-40960",
"CVE-2022-40961",
"CVE-2022-40962",
"CVE-2022-46880"
);
script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2022-A-0384-S");
script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2022-A-0517-S");
script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2023-A-0009-S");
script_name(english:"Mozilla Firefox < 105.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"A web browser installed on the remote Windows host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The version of Firefox installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 105.0. It is, therefore, affected by multiple
vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2022-40 advisory.
- During iframe navigation, certain pages did not have their FeaturePolicy fully initialized leading to a
bypass that leaked device permissions into untrusted subdocuments. (CVE-2022-40959)
- Concurrent use of the URL parser with non-UTF-8 data was not thread-safe. This could lead to a use-after-
free causing a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2022-40960)
- 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. (CVE-2022-40958)
- During startup, a graphics driver with an unexpected name could lead to a stack-buffer overflow causing a
potentially exploitable crash. This issue only affects Firefox for Android. Other operating systems are
not affected. (CVE-2022-40961)
- When injecting an HTML base element, some requests would ignore the CSP's base-uri settings and accept the
injected element's base instead. (CVE-2022-40956)
- Inconsistent data in instruction and data cache when creating wasm code could lead to a potentially
exploitable crash. This bug only affects Firefox on ARM64 platforms. (CVE-2022-40957)
- Mozilla developers Nika Layzell, Timothy Nikkel, Jeff Muizelaar, Sebastian Hengst, Andreas Pehrson, and
the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 104 and Firefox ESR 102.2. Some of
these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could
have been exploited to run arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-40962)
Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-40/");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox version 105.0 or later.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2022-40962");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2022/09/20");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2022/09/20");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2022/09/20");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"I");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Windows");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2022-2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("mozilla_org_installed.nasl");
script_require_keys("Mozilla/Firefox/Version");
exit(0);
}
include('mozilla_version.inc');
var port = get_kb_item('SMB/transport');
if (!port) port = 445;
var installs = get_kb_list('SMB/Mozilla/Firefox/*');
if (isnull(installs)) audit(AUDIT_NOT_INST, 'Firefox');
mozilla_check_version(installs:installs, product:'firefox', esr:FALSE, fix:'105.0', severity:SECURITY_HOLE);
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-3266
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-40956
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-40957
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-40958
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-40959
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-40960
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-40961
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-40962
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-46880
www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-40/