CVE-2022-46885 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Mozilla developers Timothy Nikkel, Ashley Hale, and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 105. 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 < 106.

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 0.00368.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Mozilla	Firefox

Configuration 1 [-]

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-49665	Mozilla developers Timothy Nikkel, Ashley Hale, and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 105. 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 < 106.

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=1786818%2C1789729%2C1791363%2C1792041
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-44/

History

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

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

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

Updated: 2025-04-15T14:48:47.621Z

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

Link: CVE-2022-46885

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T14:39:39.129Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-12-22T20:15:48.137

Modified: 2025-04-15T15:16:06.603

Link: CVE-2022-46885

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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