Spoofing attack in Mozilla Firefox and Firefox ESR - CVE-2022-31738

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Spoofing attack in Mozilla Firefox and Firefox ESR - CVE-2022-31738

Published: May 31, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU63874
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-31738
CWE-ID: CWE-451
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to an error when exiting fullscreen mode. A remote attacker can use an iframe to confused the browser about the current state of fullscreen and perform spoofing attack.


Affected software

Mozilla Firefox
Firefox ESR
Gentoo Linux
SUSE CaaS Platform
SUSE Manager Proxy
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server
SUSE Manager Server
SUSE Enterprise Storage
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
Anolis OS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian
CentOS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar
SUSE OpenStack Cloud
HPE Helion Openstack
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - 4 Year Extended Update Support
Oracle Linux
Oracle Solaris
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit
Slackware Linux
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications
openSUSE Leap
Ubuntu
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Packagehub Subpackages
firefox-esr (Debian package)
thunderbird (Debian package)
thunderbird (Red Hat package)
firefox (Red Hat package)
firefox
thunderbird
MozillaFirefox
MozillaFirefox-debuginfo
MozillaFirefox-debugsource
MozillaFirefox-devel
MozillaFirefox-translations-common
MozillaFirefox-translations-other
MozillaThunderbird-translations-other
MozillaThunderbird-translations-common
MozillaThunderbird-debugsource
MozillaThunderbird-debuginfo
MozillaThunderbird
MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream
thunderbird (Ubuntu package)
mail-client/thunderbird
mail-client/thunderbird-bin
firefox (Ubuntu package)
Mozilla Thunderbird
IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Monitoring
IBM Cloud Application Performance Management (APM)

How to mitigate CVE-2022-31738

Install updates from vendor's website.

Mozilla Firefox - update to 101.0
Firefox ESR - update to 91.10.0
firefox-esr (Debian package) - addressed in versions 91.10.0esr-1~deb10u1, 91.10.0esr-1~deb11u1
thunderbird (Debian package) - addressed in versions 1:91.10.0-1~deb10u1, 1:91.10.0-1~deb11u1
Mozilla Thunderbird - update to 91.10.0
thunderbird (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 91.10.0-1.el7_9, 91.10.0-1.el8_1, 91.10.0-1.el8_2, 91.10.0-1.el8_4, 91.10.0-1.el8_6, 91.10.0-1.el9_0
firefox (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 91.10.0-1.el7_9, 91.10.0-1.el8_1, 91.10.0-1.el8_2, 91.10.0-1.el8_4, 91.10.0-1.el8_6, 91.10.0-1.el9_0
IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Monitoring - update to 2.3 Fix Pack 6
IBM Cloud Application Performance Management (APM) - update to 8.1.4.0.16
firefox - update to 91.10.0-1.0.1
thunderbird - update to 91.10.0-1.0.1
MozillaFirefox - addressed in versions 91.10.0-112.114.1, 91.10.0-150000.150.44.1, 91.10.0-150200.152.43.1
MozillaFirefox-debuginfo - addressed in versions 91.10.0-112.114.1, 91.10.0-150000.150.44.1, 91.10.0-150200.152.43.1
MozillaFirefox-debugsource - addressed in versions 91.10.0-112.114.1, 91.10.0-150000.150.44.1, 91.10.0-150200.152.43.1
MozillaFirefox-devel - addressed in versions 91.10.0-112.114.1, 91.10.0-150000.150.44.1, 91.10.0-150200.152.43.1
MozillaFirefox-translations-common - addressed in versions 91.10.0-112.114.1, 91.10.0-150000.150.44.1, 91.10.0-150200.152.43.1
MozillaFirefox-translations-other - addressed in versions 91.10.0-150000.150.44.1, 91.10.0-150200.152.43.1
MozillaThunderbird-translations-other - update to 91.10.0-150200.8.73.1
MozillaThunderbird-translations-common - update to 91.10.0-150200.8.73.1
MozillaThunderbird-debugsource - update to 91.10.0-150200.8.73.1
MozillaThunderbird-debuginfo - update to 91.10.0-150200.8.73.1
MozillaThunderbird - update to 91.10.0-150200.8.73.1
MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream - update to 91.10.0-150200.152.43.1
thunderbird (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1, 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.21.10.1, 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
mail-client/thunderbird - update to 91.12.0
mail-client/thunderbird-bin - update to 91.12.0
firefox (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 101.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, 101.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1, 101.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.21.10.1

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