CVE-2022-38472
An attacker could have abused XSLT error handling to associate attacker-controlled content with another origin which was displayed in the…
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- mozilla
Description
An attacker could have abused XSLT error handling to associate attacker-controlled content with another origin which was displayed in the address bar. This could have been used to fool the user into submitting data intended for the spoofed origin. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 102.2, Thunderbird < 91.13, Firefox ESR < 91.13, Firefox ESR < 102.2, and Firefox < 104.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mozilla
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 2 years later
· 2 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.39% · top 67% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
- Address bar spoofing via XSLT error handling
- CWE-346 Origin Validation Error (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-346 and its CVEs
Affected products
- affected unspecified – < 102.2
- affected unspecified – < 91.13
- affected unspecified – < 91.13
- affected unspecified – < 102.2
- affected unspecified – < 104
References (6)
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-35/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-33/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-37/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-36/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-34/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1769155 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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