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CVE-2022-45411 — Cross-Site Tracing occurs when a server will echo a request back via the Trace m

Cross-Site Tracing occurs when a server will echo a request back via the Trace method, allowing an XSS attack to access to authorization headers and cookies inaccessible to JavaScript (such as cookies protected by HTTPOnly). To mitigate this attack, browsers placed limits on <

CVSS
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EPSS
0.22% (top 55.20%)
CWE
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Published
2022-12-22T00:00:00.000Z
Last modified
2025-04-15T15:08:19.288Z
CVSS vector
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01What is this vulnerability?

Cross-Site Tracing occurs when a server will echo a request back via the Trace method, allowing an XSS attack to access to authorization headers and cookies inaccessible to JavaScript (such as cookies protected by HTTPOnly). To mitigate this attack, browsers placed limits on <code>fetch()</code> and XMLHttpRequest; however some webservers have implemented non-standard headers such as…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
MozillaFirefox ESRunspecified
MozillaThunderbirdunspecified
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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