CVE-2022-42928

Mozilla: Memory Corruption in JS Engine

Severity Score

8.8

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

Certain types of allocations were missing annotations that, if the Garbage Collector was in a specific state, could have lead to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 106, Firefox ESR < 102.4, and Thunderbird < 102.4.

A ciertos tipos de asignaciones les faltaban anotaciones que, si el recolector de elementos no utilizados estaba en un estado específico, podrían haber provocado daños en la memoria y un bloqueo potencialmente explotable. Esta vulnerabilidad afecta a Firefox < 106, Firefox ESR < 102.4 y Thunderbird < 102.4.

A flaw was found in Mozilla. The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes the issue of certain types of allocations that were missing annotations that, if the Garbage Collector was in a specific state, could lead to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash.

*Credits: Samuel Groß and Carl Smith of Google V8 Security

CVSS Scores

NISTv3.1 8.8

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2022-10-14 CVE Reserved
2022-10-20 CVE Published
2024-08-03 CVE Updated
2024-08-12 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-120: Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

CAPEC

References (5)

URL	Tag	Source

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-44	2023-09-13
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-45	2023-09-13
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-46	2023-09-13
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-42928	2022-10-25
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2136157	2022-10-25

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"				< 106.0 Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox" and version " < 106.0"		-		Affected
Mozilla Search vendor "Mozilla"		Firefox Esr Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox Esr"				< 102.4 Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox Esr" and version " < 102.4"		-		Affected
Mozilla Search vendor "Mozilla"		Thunderbird Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Thunderbird"				< 102.4 Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Thunderbird" and version " < 102.4"		-		Affected