Mozilla Firefox Security Advisory (MFSA2022-40) - Windows
🗓️ 21 Sep 2022 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2022 Greenbone AGType
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| Source | Link |
|---|---|
| mozilla | www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-40 |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.826475");
script_version("2025-06-04T05:40:50+0000");
script_cve_id("CVE-2022-40959", "CVE-2022-40960", "CVE-2022-40958", "CVE-2022-40962",
"CVE-2022-40956", "CVE-2022-40957", "CVE-2022-3266", "CVE-2022-46880");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"10.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-06-04 05:40:50 +0000 (Wed, 04 Jun 2025)");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2023-01-04 02:59:00 +0000 (Wed, 04 Jan 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2022-09-21 13:46:32 +0530 (Wed, 21 Sep 2022)");
script_name("Mozilla Firefox Security Advisory (MFSA2022-40) - Windows");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Mozilla Firefox is prone to multiple
vulnerabilities.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present
on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Multiple flaws exist due to:
- Out of bounds read when decoding H264.
- Bypassing FeaturePolicy restrictions on transient pages.
- Data-race when parsing non-UTF-8 URLs in threads.
- Bypassing Secure Context restriction for cookies with __Host and __Secure prefix.
- Content-Security-Policy base-uri bypass.
- Incoherent instruction cache when building WASM on ARM64.
- Memory safety bugs.
- Use-after-free in WebGL.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will allow
attackers to run arbitrary code, bypass security restrictions, and leak memory
on affected system.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Mozilla Firefox version before
105 on Windows.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 105 or later.");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"registry");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-40");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2022 Greenbone AG");
script_family("General");
script_dependencies("gb_firefox_detect_win.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("Firefox/Win/Ver");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if(!infos = get_app_version_and_location( cpe:CPE, exit_no_version:TRUE))
exit(0);
vers = infos["version"];
path = infos["location"];
if(version_is_less(version:vers, test_version:"105")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:vers, fixed_version:"105", install_path:path);
security_message(port:0, data:report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);
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