🛡️ CVE-2022-36317 — firefox

🟡 CVSS 6.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit NVD
6.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

When visiting a website with an overly long URL, the user interface would start to hang. Due to session restore, this could lead to a permanent Denial of Service.<br>*This bug only affects Firefox for Android. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 103.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Affected software

CVE-2022-36317 is recorded against 1 package.

  • firefox (fixed in 103.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 22 December 2022 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

bugzilla.mozilla.org
www.mozilla.org
bugzilla.mozilla.org
www.mozilla.org

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-12-22
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
firefox — 103.0

References

Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1759951
Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1759951

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