CVE-2022-46879 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Mozilla developers and community members Lukas Bernhard, Gabriele Svelto, Randell Jesup, and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 107. 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 Firefox < 108.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00408.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Mozilla	Firefox

Configuration 1 [-]

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

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-49659	Mozilla developers and community members Lukas Bernhard, Gabriele Svelto, Randell Jesup, and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 107. 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 Firefox < 108.
Ubuntu USN	USN-5782-1	Firefox vulnerabilities

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1736224%2C1793407%2C1794249%2C1795845%2C1797682%2C1797720%2C1798494%2C1799479
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-06
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-51/

History

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

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

Updated: 2025-04-15T14:44:53.886Z

Reserved: 2022-12-09T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-46879

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-12-22T20:15:47.113

Modified: 2025-04-15T15:16:06.093

Link: CVE-2022-46879

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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