Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-0566

High

Published: 22 December 2022

Published
22 December 2022
Modified
16 April 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0019 41.3th percentile
Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-0566 is a high-severity Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787) vulnerability in Mozilla Thunderbird. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 41.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

It may be possible for an attacker to craft an email message that causes Thunderbird to perform an out-of-bounds write of one byte when processing the message. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 91.6.1.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

mozilla
thunderbird
≤ 91.6.1

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-787

Out-of-bounds writes that corrupt control flow or inject shellcode are rendered non-executable by the same memory protections.

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