CVE-2022-29918 json
Mozilla developers Gabriele Svelto, Randell Jesup and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 99.
published 3y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2022-34228
- cvss
- 8.8
- version 3.1, CNA
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.6%
- EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 46%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
Mozilla developers Gabriele Svelto, Randell Jesup and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 99. 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 < 100.
Patch / fix
- Mozilla Firefox 100
- firefox Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 100.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
- firefox Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 100.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-29918
Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0
- firefox-esr openSUSE Tumbleweed 128.5.1-1.1
- MozillaFirefox openSUSE Tumbleweed 100.0-1.1
opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1openSUSE-SU-2024:12044-1
- firefox Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22, Alpine 3.21 +5 more 100.0-r0
- librewolf Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +1 more 100.0-r0
alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2022-29918
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- firefox Arch Linux 100.0-1
arch linux advisories AVG-2709
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- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- total
- Assessed
- last yr.
Exploit prediction
0.56% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 46% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).
CVSS scores
| assigned by | version | score | vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA ADP | 3.1 | 8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVD | 3.1 | 8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| CNA | 3.1 | 8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox
Classification
- Weakness
-
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write
References
-
mozilla.org
/security/advisories/mfsa2022-16/
vendor-advisory
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bugzilla.mozilla.org
/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1744043%2C1747178%2C1753535%2C1754017%2C1755847%2C1756172%2C1757477%2C1758223%2C1760160%2C
issue-tracking, vendor-advisory
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2022-29918
- NVD CVE-2022-29918
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