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Multiple Code execution Vulnerabilities in Mozilla Applications

Issued: 
Thursday, 27 October, 2022
Last Revision: 
Thursday, 27 October, 2022
Vendor: 
Severity Level: 
Summary: 

Multiple High severity vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla Firefox, Firefox ESR and in Thunderbird Could Allow for Arbitrary Code Execution.

 

 

CVE/Vulnerability

Description

Severity

Exploitable

 

 

CVE-2022-42927

Same-origin policy violation could have leaked cross-origin URLs. 

 

IT can cause a redirection of URL to another site using performance.getEntries(). This is a same-origin policy violation and could allow for data theft.

High

No

 

 

CVE-2022-42928

Memory Corruption in JS Engine 

 

Potential impacts of these vulnerabilities include remote execution of arbitrary code and denial of service.

High

No

 

 

CVE-2022-42929

Denial of Service via window.printIf 

 

A website called window.print() in a particular way, it could cause a denial of service of the browser, which may persist beyond browser restart depending on the user's session restore settings

High

No

 

       

 

Table 1: Vulnerability details

 

 

CVE/Vulnerability

Product(s) Detail 

 

 

CVE-2022-42927

CVE-2022-42928

CVE-2022-42929

Firefox prior version to 106

Firefox ESR prior version to 102.4

Thunderbird prior version to 102.4

 

     

 

Table 2: Vulnerable versions

 

Recommendation: 

Mozilla recommends to update the affected product versions to latest.