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CVE-2022-34473

Published: 5 July 2022

The HTML Sanitizer should have sanitized the <code>href</code> attribute of SVG <code>&lt;use&gt;</code> tags; however it incorrectly did not sanitize <code>xlink:href</code> attributes. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 102.

Notes

AuthorNote
tyhicks
mozjs contains a copy of the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine
mdeslaur
starting with Ubuntu 22.04, the firefox package is just a script
that installs the Firefox snap

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.1

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
firefox
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic
Released (102.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1)
focal
Released (102.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1)
impish
Released (102.0+build2-0ubuntu0.21.10.1)
jammy Not vulnerable
(code not present)
kinetic Not vulnerable
(code not present)
lunar Not vulnerable
(code not present)
trusty Does not exist

upstream
Released (102)
xenial Does not exist

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.1
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Changed
Confidentiality Low
Integrity impact Low
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N