Cross-site scripting in Mozilla Firefox and Firefox ESR - CVE-2022-36318

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Cross-site scripting in Mozilla Firefox and Firefox ESR - CVE-2022-36318

Published: July 26, 2022 / Updated: July 29, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU65795
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 2.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-36318
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data when visiting directory listings for chrome:// URLs as source text. A remote attacker can execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.


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

How to mitigate CVE-2022-36318

Install updates from vendor's website.

Mozilla Firefox - update to 103.0
Firefox ESR - addressed in versions 91.12.0, 102.1.0
thunderbird (Debian package) - addressed in versions 1:91.12.0-1~deb10u1, 1:91.12.0-1~deb11u1
Mozilla Thunderbird - addressed in versions 91.12.0, 102.1.0
thunderbird (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 91.12.0-1.el7_9, 91.12.0-1.el8_1, 91.12.0-1.el8_2, 91.12.0-1.el8_4, 91.12.0-1.el8_6, 91.12.0-1.el9_0
firefox (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 91.12.0-2.el7_9, 91.12.0-2.el8_1, 91.12.0-2.el8_2, 91.12.0-2.el8_4, 91.12.0-2.el8_6, 91.12.0-2.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
mail-client/thunderbird - update to 91.12.0
mail-client/thunderbird-bin - update to 91.12.0
firefox-esr (Debian package) - addressed in versions 91.12.0esr-1~deb10u1, 91.12.0esr-1~deb11u1
thunderbird - update to 91.12.0-1.0.1
firefox - update to 91.12.0-2.0.1
MozillaFirefox-translations-common - addressed in versions 91.12.0-112.124.1, 91.12.0-150000.150.50.1, 91.12.0-150200.152.53.1, 102.2.0-112.130.1, 102.2.0-150000.150.56.1, 102.3.0-150200.152.61.1
MozillaFirefox-devel - addressed in versions 91.12.0-112.124.1, 91.12.0-150000.150.50.1, 91.12.0-150200.152.53.1, 102.2.0-112.130.1, 102.2.0-150000.150.56.1, 102.3.0-150200.152.61.1
MozillaFirefox-debugsource - addressed in versions 91.12.0-112.124.1, 91.12.0-150000.150.50.1, 91.12.0-150200.152.53.1, 102.2.0-112.130.1, 102.2.0-150000.150.56.1, 102.3.0-150200.152.61.1
MozillaFirefox-debuginfo - addressed in versions 91.12.0-112.124.1, 91.12.0-150000.150.50.1, 91.12.0-150200.152.53.1, 102.2.0-112.130.1, 102.2.0-150000.150.56.1, 102.3.0-150200.152.61.1
MozillaFirefox - addressed in versions 91.12.0-112.124.1, 91.12.0-150000.150.50.1, 91.12.0-150200.152.53.1, 102.2.0-112.130.1, 102.2.0-150000.150.56.1, 102.3.0-150200.152.61.1
MozillaFirefox-translations-other - addressed in versions 91.12.0-150000.150.50.1, 91.12.0-150200.152.53.1, 102.2.0-150000.150.56.1, 102.3.0-150200.152.61.1
MozillaThunderbird-translations-other - addressed in versions 91.12.0-150200.8.79.1, 102.2.2-150200.8.82.1
MozillaThunderbird-translations-common - addressed in versions 91.12.0-150200.8.79.1, 102.2.2-150200.8.82.1
MozillaThunderbird-debugsource - addressed in versions 91.12.0-150200.8.79.1, 102.2.2-150200.8.82.1
MozillaThunderbird-debuginfo - addressed in versions 91.12.0-150200.8.79.1, 102.2.2-150200.8.82.1
MozillaThunderbird - addressed in versions 91.12.0-150200.8.79.1, 102.2.2-150200.8.82.1
MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream - addressed in versions 91.12.0-150200.152.53.1, 102.3.0-150200.152.61.1
thunderbird (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 1:102.2.2+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, 1:102.2.2+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1, 1:102.2.2+build1-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
MozillaFirefox-branding-SLE - addressed in versions 102-35.9.1, 102-150000.4.22.1, 102-150200.9.10.1
firefox (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 103.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, 103.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

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