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MiracleLinux 9 : firefox-102.3.0-6.el9.ML.1 (AXSA:2022-4111:35)

high Nessus Plugin ID 291887

Synopsis

The remote MiracleLinux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote MiracleLinux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the AXSA:2022-4111:35 advisory.

 * Mozilla: Bypassing FeaturePolicy restrictions on transient pages (CVE-2022-40959)
 * Mozilla: Data-race when parsing non-UTF-8 URLs in threads (CVE-2022-40960)
 * Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 105 and Firefox ESR 102.3 (CVE-2022-40962)
 * Mozilla: Bypassing Secure Context restriction for cookies with __Host and __Secure prefix (CVE-2022-40958)
 * Mozilla: Content-Security-Policy base-uri bypass (CVE-2022-40956)
 * Mozilla: Incoherent instruction cache when building WASM on ARM64 (CVE-2022-40957)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected firefox package.

See Also

https://tsn.miraclelinux.com/en/node/15295

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 291887

File Name: miracle_linux_AXSA-2022-4111.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 1/20/2026

Updated: 1/20/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-40962

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:miracle:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:firefox

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/MiracleLinux/release, Host/MiracleLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/22/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/20/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-40956, CVE-2022-40957, CVE-2022-40958, CVE-2022-40959, CVE-2022-40960, CVE-2022-40962