CVE-2022-38478

Members the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 103, Firefox ESR 102.1, and Firefox ESR 91.12. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 102.2, Thunderbird < 91.13, Firefox ESR < 91.13, Firefox ESR < 102.2, and Firefox < 104.

CVSS v3.0 8.8 HIGH

8.8^/10

CVSS v3.0 : HIGH

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.8 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1770630%2C1776658	Issue Tracking Not Applicable Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-35/	Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-34/	Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-33/	Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-37/	Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-36/	Vendor Advisory

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Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox::::::::

Information

Published : 2022-12-22 12:15

Updated : 2022-12-30 18:35

NVD link : CVE-2022-38478

Mitre link : CVE-2022-38478

JSON object : View

CWE

CWE-787

Out-of-bounds Write

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Products Affected

mozilla

firefox
firefox_esr
thunderbird

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