Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-46872

High

Published: 22 December 2022

Published
22 December 2022
Modified
15 April 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 8.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0037 59.5th percentile
Risk Priority 17 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-46872 is a high-severity Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125) vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox. Its CVSS base score is 8.6 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 40.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

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…

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< 102.6, and Thunderbird < 102.6.

CWE(s)
NVD-CWE-noinfoCWE-125

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

mozilla
firefox
≤ 108.0
mozilla
firefox esr
≤ 102.6
mozilla
thunderbird
≤ 102.6

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References