Cross-origin iframe permission inheritance via XSLT
Published Dec 22, 2022 · Updated Apr 15, 2025
Cross-origin permission bypass in Mozilla Firefox before 104 allows remote attackers to access parent-origin media permissions via an XSLT iframe. During XSLT transformation, the result document resets FeaturePolicy to a permissive default instead of inheriting the source document policy, allowing a cross-origin child to request or access microphone and camera permissions granted to the top-level origin. Exploitation requires a victim to load attacker-controlled content in the browser; the demonstrated impact is unauthorized media access or permission prompts in the parent origin.
Summary
What happened
Cross-origin permission bypass in Mozilla Firefox before 104 allows remote attackers to access parent-origin media permissions via an XSLT iframe. During XSLT transformation, the result document resets FeaturePolicy to a permissive default instead of inheriting the source document policy, allowing a cross-origin child to request or access microphone and camera permissions granted to the top-level origin. Exploitation requires a victim to load attacker-controlled content in the browser; the demonstrated impact is unauthorized media access or permission prompts in the parent origin.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-38473
- Published
- Dec 22, 2022
- Updated
- Apr 15, 2025
- Vendor
- Mozilla
- Product
- Firefox
- Classifications
- CWE-281, CWE-1021, T1189
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Dec 22, 2022CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 15, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=unspecified <104
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