CVE-2022-40962
8.8
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.28%
Description
Mozilla developers Nika Layzell, Timothy Nikkel, Sebastian Hengst, Andreas Pehrson, and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 104 and Firefox ESR 102.2. 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 ESR < 102.3, Thunderbird < 102.3, and Firefox < 105.
How to fix CVE-2022-40962
To remediate CVE-2022-40962, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 102.3.0esr-1~deb11u1 or later
- —upgrade to 1:102.3.0-1~deb11u1 or later
Is CVE-2022-40962 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.3%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 102.3.0esr-1~deb11u1
- from 0, < 1:102.3.0-1~deb11u1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |