GHSA-6x5v-cwgm-x5w9

GHSA-6x5v-cwgm-x5w9 PUBLISHED CVSS 9.300000190734863 CRITICAL

Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 13, 2022

Mozilla Firefox before 16.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, Thunderbird before 16.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.13 do not properly manage history data, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks or obtain sensitive POST content via vectors involving a location.hash write operation and history navigation that triggers the loading of a URL into the history object.

Risk scores

CVSS 4.0

9.300000190734863

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Timeline

May 13, 2022 CVE Published
Apr 9, 2026 Distribution Patch
Apr 29, 2026 Security Advisory

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The same record, from the CLI:

vulnetix vdb vuln GHSA-6x5v-cwgm-x5w9
vulnetix vdb fixes GHSA-6x5v-cwgm-x5w9

Or with curl, using the org id and key from your account page:

curl -s -H "Authorization: ApiKey ${VULNETIX_ORG_ID}:${VULNETIX_API_KEY}" \
  "https://api.vdb.vulnetix.com/v2/vuln/GHSA-6x5v-cwgm-x5w9/fixes/registry"

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