CVE-2022-46883

Mozilla developers Gabriele Svelto, Yulia Startsev, Andrew McCreight and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 106. 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.<br />*Note*: This advisory was added on December 13th, 2022 after discovering it was inadvertently left out of the original advisory. The fix was included in the original release of Firefox 107. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 107.

CVSS v3 8.8 HIGH

8.8^/10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.8 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1584674%2C1791152%2C1792241%2C1792984%2C1793127%2C1794645	Issue Tracking Not Applicable Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-47/	Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1584674%2C1791152%2C1792241%2C1792984%2C1793127%2C1794645	Issue Tracking Not Applicable Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-47/	Vendor Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

15 Apr 2025, 15:16

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CWE		CWE-88

Information

Published : 2022-12-22 20:15

Updated : 2025-04-15 15:16

NVD link : CVE-2022-46883

Mitre link : CVE-2022-46883

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2022-46883

JSON object : View

Products Affected

mozilla

firefox

CWE

CWE-787

Out-of-bounds Write

CWE-88

Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')

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