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CVE-2022-1529

Mozilla: Untrusted input used in JavaScript object indexing, leading to prototype pollution

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Severity

Critical

Red Hat Product Security

8.8

CVSS 3.0

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Published · May 20, 2022

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as: An attacker could have sent a message to the parent process where the contents were used to double-index into a JavaScript object, leading to prototype pollution and ultimately attacker-controlled JavaScript executing in the privileged parent process.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-843 · Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')