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CVE-2022-38472 — An attacker could have abused XSLT error handling to associate attacker-controll

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 Thund

CVSS
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EPSS
0.17% (top 62.10%)
CWE
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Published
2022-12-22T00:00:00.000Z
Last modified
2025-04-15T16:50:13.366Z
CVSS vector
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01What is this vulnerability?

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.

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
MozillaThunderbirdunspecified, unspecified
MozillaFirefox ESRunspecified, unspecified
MozillaFirefoxunspecified

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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