CVE-2022-28282

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: Dec 22, 2022
Updated: Apr 15, 2025
Reserved: Mar 31, 2022

Description

By using a link with <code>rel="localization"</code> a use-after-free could have been triggered by destroying an object during JavaScript execution and then referencing the object through a freed pointer, leading to a potential exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 91.8, Firefox < 99, and Firefox ESR < 91.8.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-416 Use After Free

Affected Products

Product	Versions
ThunderbirdMozilla	before 91.8Affected
FirefoxMozilla	before 99Affected
Firefox ESRMozilla	before 91.8Affected

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-13/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-14/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-15/
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1751609

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