CVE-2022-22747

Mozilla: Crash when handling empty pkcs7 sequence

Severity Score

6.5

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

After accepting an untrusted certificate, handling an empty pkcs7 sequence as part of the certificate data could have lead to a crash. This crash is believed to be unexploitable. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 91.5, Firefox < 96, and Thunderbird < 91.5.

Después de aceptar un certificado que no es de confianza, manejar una secuencia pkcs7 vacía como parte de los datos del certificado podría haber provocado un bloqueo. Se cree que este accidente no es explotable. Esta vulnerabilidad afecta a Firefox ESR < 91.5, Firefox < 96 y Thunderbird < 91.5.

The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as: After accepting an untrusted certificate, handling an empty pkcs7 sequence as part of the certificate data could have lead to a crash. This crash is believed to be unexploitable.

Tavis Ormandy discovered that NSS incorrectly handled an empty pkcs7 sequence. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause NSS to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 21.10. Ronald Crane discovered that NSS incorrectly handled certain memory operations. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause NSS to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

*Credits: N/A

CVSS Scores

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Low

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Complete

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2022-01-07 CVE Reserved
2022-01-13 CVE Published
2024-08-03 CVE Updated
2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-295: Improper Certificate Validation
CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

CAPEC

References (6)

URL	Tag	Source

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1735028	2022-12-29
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-01	2022-12-29
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-02	2022-12-29
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-03	2022-12-29
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-22747	2022-01-12
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2039572	2022-01-12

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Mozilla Search vendor "Mozilla"		Firefox Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox"				< 96.0 Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox" and version " < 96.0"		-		Affected
Mozilla Search vendor "Mozilla"		Firefox Esr Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox Esr"				< 91.5 Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox Esr" and version " < 91.5"		-		Affected
Mozilla Search vendor "Mozilla"		Thunderbird Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Thunderbird"				< 91.5 Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Thunderbird" and version " < 91.5"		-		Affected