CVE-2022-46878

Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 102.6 and Thunderbird 102.6

Severity Score

8.8

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

NVD
RedHat

Mozilla developers Randell Jesup, Valentin Gosu, Olli Pettay, and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Thunderbird 102.5. 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, Firefox ESR < 102.6, and Thunderbird < 102.6.

The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:

Mozilla developers Randell Jesup, Valentin Gosu, Olli Pettay, and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 107 and Firefox ESR 102.5. 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 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

2022-12-09 CVE Reserved
2022-12-15 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-787: Out-of-bounds Write

CAPEC

References (8)

URL	Tag	Source
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1782219%2C1797370%2C1797685%2C1801102%2C1801315%2C1802395	Broken Link

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-06	2023-08-08
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-13	2023-08-08
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-51	2023-08-08
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-52	2023-08-08
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-53	2023-08-08
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-46878	2022-12-15
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2153454	2022-12-15

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"				< 108.0 Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox" and version " < 108.0"		-		Affected
Mozilla Search vendor "Mozilla"		Firefox Esr Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox Esr"				< 102.6 Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox Esr" and version " < 102.6"		-		Affected
Mozilla Search vendor "Mozilla"		Thunderbird Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Thunderbird"				< 102.6 Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Thunderbird" and version " < 102.6"		-		Affected