CVE-2022-29917

Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 100 and Firefox ESR 91.9

Severity Score

9.8

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

Mozilla developers Andrew McCreight, Gabriele Svelto, Tom Ritter and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 99 and Firefox ESR 91.8. 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 < 91.9, Firefox ESR < 91.9, and Firefox < 100.

Los desarrolladores de Mozilla, Andrew McCreight, Gabriele Svelto, Tom Ritter y el equipo Mozilla Fuzzing, informaron sobre errores de seguridad de la memoria presentes en Firefox 99 y Firefox ESR 91.8. Algunos de estos errores mostraron evidencia de corrupción de memoria y suponemos que con suficiente esfuerzo algunos de ellos podrían haberse aprovechado para ejecutar código arbitrario. Esta vulnerabilidad afecta a Thunderbird < 91.9, Firefox ESR < 91.9 y Firefox < 100.

The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:

Mozilla developers Andrew McCreight, Gabriele Svelto, Tom Ritter and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 99 and Firefox ESR 91.8. 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.

*Credits: N/A

CVSS Scores

NISTv3.1 9.8

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2022-04-29 CVE Reserved
2022-05-04 CVE Published
2024-08-03 CVE Updated
2024-08-03 First Exploit
2024-08-12 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

CWE-120: Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write

CAPEC

References (6)

URL	Tag	Source

URL	Date	SRC
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1684739%2C1706441%2C1753298%2C1762614%2C1762620%2C1764778	2024-08-03

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-16	2023-08-08
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-17	2023-08-08
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-18	2023-08-08
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-29917	2022-05-18
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2081473	2022-05-18

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"				< 100.0 Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox" and version " < 100.0"		-		Affected
Mozilla Search vendor "Mozilla"		Firefox Esr Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox Esr"				< 91.9 Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox Esr" and version " < 91.9"		-		Affected
Mozilla Search vendor "Mozilla"		Thunderbird Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Thunderbird"				< 91.9 Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Thunderbird" and version " < 91.9"		-		Affected