#VU60406 Sandbox restrictions bypass in Mozilla Firefox and Firefox ESR - CVE-2022-22759 

 

#VU60406 Sandbox restrictions bypass in Mozilla Firefox and Firefox ESR - CVE-2022-22759

Published: February 8, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU60406
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: 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/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-22759
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Mozilla Firefox
Firefox ESR
Software vendor:
Mozilla

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to the way iframes are handled by the browser. If a document created a sandboxed iframe without allow-scripts, and subsequently appended an element to the iframe's document that e.g. had a JavaScript event handler - the event handler would have run despite the iframe's sandbox.


Remediation

Install updates from vendor's website.

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