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CVE-2022-46872

Published: 14 December 2022

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.

Notes

AuthorNote
tyhicks
mozjs contains a copy of the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine
mdeslaur
starting with Ubuntu 22.04, the firefox package is just a script
that installs the Firefox snap

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.6

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
firefox
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
jammy Not vulnerable
(code not present)
kinetic Not vulnerable
(code not present)
lunar Not vulnerable
(code not present)
trusty Ignored
(end of standard support)
upstream
Released (108.0-1)
bionic
Released (108.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1)
focal
Released (108.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1)
xenial Ignored
(end of standard support)
mantic Not vulnerable
(code not present)
mozjs38
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Needs triage

focal Does not exist

jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

mozjs52
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Needs triage

focal Needs triage

jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

mozjs78
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
kinetic Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
bionic Does not exist

focal Does not exist

jammy Needs triage

trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

mantic Does not exist

lunar Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
mozjs68
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Does not exist

focal Needs triage

jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

mozjs91
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Does not exist

focal Does not exist

jammy Needs triage

kinetic Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

thunderbird
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
lunar
Released (1:102.7.1+build2-0ubuntu1)
trusty Ignored
(end of standard support)
upstream Needs triage

bionic
Released (1:102.7.1+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1)
focal
Released (1:102.7.1+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1)
jammy
Released (1:102.7.1+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1)
kinetic
Released (1:102.7.1+build2-0ubuntu0.22.10.1)
xenial Ignored
(end of standard support)
mantic
Released (1:102.7.1+build2-0ubuntu1)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 8.6
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Changed
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact None
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N