CVE-2022-45411

MEDIUM

Firefox < 107.0 and Firefox ESR < 102.5 - Cross-Site Tracing via X-Http-Method-Override Header

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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 <code>X-Http-Method-Override</code> that override the HTTP method, and made this attack possible again. Thunderbird has applied the same mitigations to the use of this and similar headers. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 102.5, Thunderbird < 102.5, and Firefox < 107.

Scores

CVSS v3 6.1
EPSS 0.0022
EPSS Percentile 45.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-79
Status published
Products (3)
mozilla/firefox < 107.0
mozilla/firefox_esr < 102.5
mozilla/thunderbird < 102.5
Published Dec 22, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026