CVE-2022-42930
Published: 22 December 2022
Summary
CVE-2022-42930 is a high-severity Race Condition (CWE-362) vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox. Its CVSS base score is 7.1 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 48.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-45986
Vulnerability details
If two Workers were simultaneously initializing their CacheStorage, a data race could have occurred in the `ThirdPartyUtil` component. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 106.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
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.
Accurate timestamps from internal clocks enable detection of race conditions by providing reliable event ordering in audit logs.
Coordination of concurrent security activities reduces the probability that shared resources will be accessed simultaneously without proper synchronization.