CVE-2022-22755 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

By using XSL Transforms, a malicious webserver could have served a user an XSL document that would continue to execute JavaScript (within the bounds of the same-origin policy) even after the tab was closed. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 97.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Mozilla	Firefox

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1309630
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-04/

History

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2022-12-22T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-04-16T14:41:52.586Z

Reserved: 2022-01-07T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-22755

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T03:21:49.166Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-12-22T20:15:18.197

Modified: 2025-04-16T15:15:48.623

Link: CVE-2022-22755

Redhat

No data.

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