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CVE-2022-46872
An attacker who compromised a content process could have partially escaped the sandbox to read arbitrary files via clipboard-related IPC…
High8.6EPSS 0.82%
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- mozilla
Description
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 < 102.6, and Thunderbird < 102.6.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High8.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.82% · top 42% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.6.
Weakness
- Arbitrary file read from a compromised content process
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-125 and its CVEs
Affected products
- affected unspecified – < 108
- affected unspecified – < 102.6
- affected unspecified – < 102.6
References (6)
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-52/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-53/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-51/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1799156 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- GLSA-202305-06 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- GLSA-202305-13 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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