CVE-2022-46878: mozilla firefox Out-of-bounds Write
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2022-46878 is a high (CVSS 8.8) Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in mozilla firefox. EPSS estimates a 0.74% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 53.8% of scored vulnerabilities.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 31 · Related 9Timeline
- 22-12-2022PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 15-04-2025Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
Mozilla developers Randell Jesup, Valentin Gosu, Olli Pettay, and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Thunderbird 102.5. 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 < 108, Firefox ESR < 102.6, and Thunderbird < 102.6.
CVSS metrics
4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated8.8HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated8.8HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVDNIST8.8HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
0.74%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
54%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
+0.02 pp
From 0.72% on 19-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Ubuntu7 products
- firefox< 108.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 | < 108.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
- mozjs38All versions (No fix recorded)
- mozjs52All versions (No fix recorded)
- mozjs68All versions (No fix recorded)
- mozjs78All versions (No fix recorded)
Mozilla3 products
- firefox≥ unspecified, < 108 | < 108.0
- firefox_esr≥ unspecified, < 102.6 | < 102.6
- thunderbird≥ unspecified, < 102.6 | < 102.6
Debian2 products
- firefox-esr< 102.6.0esr-1
- thunderbird< 1:102.6.0-1
3 vendors · 12 products
References
14 links- www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-52/Vendor Advisory
- www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-53/Vendor Advisory
- www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-51/Vendor Advisory
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1782219%2C1797370%2C1797685%2C1801102%2C1801315%2C1802395Broken LinkIssue Tracking
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-06Vendor Advisory
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-13Vendor Advisory
