Code Injection in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2022-31743
Published: May 31, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU63880
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-31743
CWE-ID: CWE-94
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Mozilla
Affected software:
Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code.
The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation when handling HTML comment tags. A remote attacker can abuse this error to perform XSS attacks.
How to mitigate CVE-2022-31743
Install updates from vendor's website.