CVE-2022-29909

high

Published 2022-05-18 · Modified 2022-05-05

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.0

Description

Documents in deeply-nested cross-origin browsing contexts could have obtained permissions granted to the top-level origin, bypassing the existing prompt and wrongfully inheriting the top-level permissions. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 91.9, Firefox ESR < 91.9, and Firefox < 100.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

AlmaLinux Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
8	Fixed	`firefox-91.9.0-1.el8_5.alma.aarch64.rpm`

Arch Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Fixed	`91.9-1`

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`91.9.0esr-1`
sid	Fixed	`100.0-1`
forky	Fixed	`91.9.0esr-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`91.9.0esr-1~deb11u1`
bookworm	Fixed	`91.9.0esr-1`

Red Hat Fixed 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
9	Fixed	—
8	Fixed	—

Rocky Linux Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
8	Fixed	—

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.