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firefox-esr, thunderbird — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2022-38472

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.

Products
firefox-esr, thunderbird
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
102.2.0esr-1, 1:102.2.0-1
CVEs
CVE-2022-38472
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
30 Oct 2026, 14:51 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2022-38472

core-osv · Original source

Published 22 Dec 2022, 20:15 UTC

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.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2022-38472

firefox-esr

Fixed versions: 102.2.0esr-1

firefox-esr

Fixed versions: 102.2.0esr-1

firefox-esr

Fixed versions: 102.2.0esr-1

thunderbird

Fixed versions: 1:102.2.0-1

thunderbird

Fixed versions: 1:102.2.0-1

thunderbird

Fixed versions: 1:102.2.0-1

Complete source record
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