Vulnerability · Published Dec 22, 2022 · Assigned by mozilla
CVE-2022-22750
Medium 6.5
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in Firefox from Mozilla. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 49% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.
Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.6%top 51.1% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
By generally accepting and passing resource handles across processes, a compromised content process might have confused higher privileged processes to interact with handles that the unprivileged process should not have access to.<br>*This bug only affects Firefox for Windows and MacOS. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 96.
Affected packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine:v3.20 | firefox | 97.0-r0 | ALPINE-CVE-2022-22750 |
| Alpine:v3.21 | firefox | 97.0-r0 | ALPINE-CVE-2022-22750 |
| Alpine:v3.22 | firefox | 97.0-r0 | ALPINE-CVE-2022-22750 |
| Alpine:v3.23 | firefox | 97.0-r0 | ALPINE-CVE-2022-22750 |
| Alpine:v3.21 | librewolf | 97.0-r0 | ALPINE-CVE-2022-22750 |
| Alpine:v3.22 | librewolf | 97.0-r0 | ALPINE-CVE-2022-22750 |
| Alpine:v3.23 | librewolf | 97.0-r0 | ALPINE-CVE-2022-22750 |
| Alpine:v3.24 | librewolf | 97.0-r0 | ALPINE-CVE-2022-22750 |