VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2022-42928
Certain types of allocations were missing annotations that, if the Garbage Collector was in a specific state, could have lead to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash.
HIGH 8.8EPSS 0.83%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.83%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Certain types of allocations were missing annotations that, if the Garbage Collector was in a specific state, could have lead to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 106, Firefox ESR < 102.4, and Thunderbird < 102.4.
- CVSS 3.1
- 8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.83% probability · 55th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-476
- Affected
- mozilla/firefox · mozilla/firefox esr · mozilla/thunderbird
- Source
- security@mozilla.org
References
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1791520Issue Tracking, Permissions Required
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-44/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-45/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-46/Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1791520Issue Tracking, Permissions Required
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-44/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-45/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-46/Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.