CVE-2022-42931 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Logins saved by Firefox should be managed by the Password Manager component which uses encryption to save files on-disk. Instead, the username (not password) was saved by the Form Manager to an unencrypted file on disk. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 106.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00033.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Mozilla	Firefox

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-45987	Logins saved by Firefox should be managed by the Password Manager component which uses encryption to save files on-disk. Instead, the username (not password) was saved by the Form Manager to an unencrypted file on disk. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 106.
Ubuntu USN	USN-5709-1	Firefox vulnerabilities

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1780571
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-44/

History

Tue, 15 Apr 2025 16:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2022-12-22T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-04-15T15:23:46.302Z

Reserved: 2022-10-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-42931

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T13:19:05.485Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-12-22T20:15:41.083

Modified: 2025-04-15T16:15:20.290

Link: CVE-2022-42931

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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