CVE-2022-38475 (GCVE-0-2022-38475)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-12-22 00:00
Modified
2025-04-15 17:26
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • Attacker could write a value to a zero-length array
Summary
An attacker could have written a value to the first element in a zero-length JavaScript array. Although the array was zero-length, the value was not written to an invalid memory address. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 104.
References
security@mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1773266Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-33/Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1773266Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-33/Vendor Advisory
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