9.8

CVE-2022-36320: mozilla firefox Out-of-bounds Write

CVSS: 9.8v3.1CriticalModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2022-36320
Published 22-12-2022Last modified 15-04-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-36320 is a critical (CVSS 9.8) Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in mozilla firefox. EPSS estimates a 0.68% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 51.5% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
70/100
0100
High · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
9.8/10
010
Critical · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.68%
0%100%
Low · +0.02 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 3 · Related 3
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:12227-1OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1USN-5536-1

Timeline

  1. 22-12-2022
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 15-04-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Mozilla developers and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 102. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 103.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.68%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

52%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.02 pp

From 0.66% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.68%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Ubuntu7 products
  • firefox< 103.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 | < 103.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
  • mozjs38All versions (No fix recorded)
  • mozjs52All versions (No fix recorded)
  • mozjs68All versions (No fix recorded)
  • mozjs78All versions (No fix recorded)
Mozilla1 product
  • firefox≥ unspecified, < 103 | < 103.0

2 vendors · 8 products

References

6 links