CVE-2022-0843

Mozilla developers Kershaw Chang, Ryan VanderMeulen, and Randell Jesup reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 97. 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 < 98.

CVSS v3.0 8.8 HIGH

8.8^/10

CVSS v3.0 : 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=1746523%2C1749062%2C1749164%2C1749214%2C1749610%2C1750032%2C1752100%2C1752405%2C1753612%2C1754508	Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1746523%2C1749062%2C1749164%2C1749214%2C1749610%2C1750032%2C1752100%2C1752405%2C1753612%2C1754508	Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-10/	Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-10/	Vendor Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

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

History

16 Apr 2025, 16:15

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
References	~~(MISC) https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-10/ - Vendor Advisory~~	() https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-10/ - Vendor Advisory
References	~~(MISC) https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1746523%2C1749062%2C1749164%2C1749214%2C1749610%2C1750032%2C1752100%2C1752405%2C1753612%2C1754508 - Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory~~	() https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1746523%2C1749062%2C1749164%2C1749214%2C1749610%2C1750032%2C1752100%2C1752405%2C1753612%2C1754508 - Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory

Information

Published : 2022-12-22 20:15

Updated : 2025-04-16 16:15

NVD link : CVE-2022-0843

Mitre link : CVE-2022-0843

JSON object : View

Products Affected

mozilla

firefox

CWE

CWE-787

Out-of-bounds Write

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