🛡️ CVE-2022-38478
🟠 CVSS 8.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-787 NVD
8.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Members the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 103, Firefox ESR 102.1, and Firefox ESR 91.12. 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 < 102.2, Thunderbird < 91.13, Firefox ESR < 91.13, Firefox ESR < 102.2, and Firefox < 104.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-787
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-12-22
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2025-04-15
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
firefox 102.0 102.2
firefox-esr — 91.13
thunderbird 102.0 102.2

References

Issue Tracking, Not Applicable, Vendor Advisory https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1770630%2C1776658
Issue Tracking, Not Applicable, Vendor Advisory https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1770630%2C1776658

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