CVE-2022-46872

State: Published
Severity: 8.6 High
Published: Dec 22, 2022
Updated: Apr 15, 2025
Reserved: Dec 9, 2022

Description

An attacker who compromised a content process could have partially escaped the sandbox to read arbitrary files via clipboard-related IPC messages.<br>*This bug only affects Thunderbird for Linux. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 108, Firefox ESR < 102.6, and Thunderbird < 102.6.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.6 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read

Affected Products

Product	Versions
FirefoxMozilla	before 108Affected
Firefox ESRMozilla	before 102.6Affected
ThunderbirdMozilla	before 102.6Affected

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-52/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-53/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-51/
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1799156
GLSA-202305-06vendor-advisory
GLSA-202305-13vendor-advisory

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