CVE-2022-22738 (GCVE-0-2022-22738)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-12-22 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-16 15:07
VLAI
Summary
Applying a CSS filter effect could have accessed out of bounds memory. This could have lead to a heap-buffer-overflow causing a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 91.5, Firefox < 96, and Thunderbird < 91.5.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • Heap-buffer-overflow in blendGaussianBlur
  • CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds Write
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Mozilla Firefox ESR Affected: unspecified , < 91.5 (custom)
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Mozilla Firefox Affected: unspecified , < 96 (custom)
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Mozilla Thunderbird Affected: unspecified , < 91.5 (custom)
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