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CVE-2022-40959

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-40959 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting Mozilla Firefox, Firefox ESR, and Thunderbird versions prior to 105 and 102.3 respectively. It involves a FeaturePolicy bypass during iframe navigation, which could leak device permissions to untrusted subdocuments. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.5, indicating a network-based attack requiring user interaction, with a high impact on confidentiality. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 105.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 102.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 102.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.28%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
67.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0128 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 26,234 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (13)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: thunderbird-0:102.3.0-3.el9_0
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: thunderbird-0:102.3.0-3.el7_9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: firefox-0:102.3.0-6.el7_9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: firefox-0:102.3.0-6.el8_6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: thunderbird-0:102.3.0-3.el8_6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Update Services for SAP SolutionsFixed in: firefox-0:102.3.0-6.el8_1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Update Services for SAP SolutionsFixed in: thunderbird-0:102.3.0-3.el8_1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update SupportFixed in: firefox-0:102.3.0-6.el8_2
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update SupportFixed in: thunderbird-0:102.3.0-3.el8_2
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update SupportFixed in: firefox-0:102.3.0-6.el8_4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update SupportFixed in: thunderbird-0:102.3.0-3.el8_4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: firefox-0:102.3.0-6.el9_0
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mozillavendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2022-40959Important

Mozilla: Bypassing FeaturePolicy restrictions on transient pages

Sep 20, 2022

References

bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPermissions Required
mozilla.org / security/advisories/mfsa2022-40
Vendor Advisory
mozilla.org / security/advisories/mfsa2022-41
Vendor Advisory
mozilla.org / security/advisories/mfsa2022-42
Vendor Advisory