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Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2022-16

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 100

Announced
May 3, 2022
Impact
high
Products
Firefox
Fixed in
  • Firefox 100

#CVE-2022-29914: Fullscreen notification bypass using popups

Reporter
Irvan Kurniawan
Impact
high
Description

When reusing existing popups Firefox would have allowed them to cover the fullscreen notification UI, which could have enabled browser spoofing attacks.

References

#CVE-2022-29909: Bypassing permission prompt in nested browsing contexts

Reporter
Armin Ebert
Impact
high
Description

Documents in deeply-nested cross-origin browsing contexts could have obtained permissions granted to the top-level origin, bypassing the existing prompt and wrongfully inheriting the top-level permissions.

References

#CVE-2022-29916: Leaking browser history with CSS variables

Reporter
Mateusz Sionkowski
Impact
high
Description

Firefox behaved slightly differently for already known resources when loading CSS resources involving CSS variables. This could have been used to probe the browser history.

References

#CVE-2022-29911: iframe Sandbox bypass

Reporter
Trung Pham
Impact
high
Description

An improper implementation of the new iframe sandbox keyword allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation could lead to script execution without allow-scripts being present.

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#CVE-2022-29912: Reader mode bypassed SameSite cookies

Reporter
Matheus Vrech
Impact
moderate
Description

Requests initiated through reader mode did not properly omit cookies with a SameSite attribute.

References

#CVE-2022-29910: Firefox for Android forgot HTTP Strict Transport Security settings

Reporter
Mark B
Impact
moderate
Description

When closed or sent to the background, Firefox for Android would not properly record and persist HSTS settings.
Note: This issue only affected Firefox for Android. Other operating systems are unaffected.

References

#CVE-2022-29915: Leaking cross-origin redirect through the Performance API

Reporter
Sohom Datta
Impact
low
Description

The Performance API did not properly hide the fact whether a request cross-origin resource has observed redirects.

References

#CVE-2022-29917: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 100 and Firefox ESR 91.9

Reporter
Mozilla developers
Impact
high
Description

Mozilla developers Andrew McCreight, Gabriele Svelto, Tom Ritter and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 99 and Firefox ESR 91.8. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code.

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#CVE-2022-29918: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 100

Reporter
Mozilla developers
Impact
high
Description

Mozilla developers Gabriele Svelto, Randell Jesup and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 99. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code.

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