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CVE-2022-29917

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-12-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

Mozilla developers Andrew McCreight, Gabriele Svelto, Tom Ritter and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 99 and Firefox ESR 91.8. 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 Thunderbird < 91.9, Firefox ESR < 91.9, and Firefox < 100.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: before 100.0 — fixed in 100.0
• Mozilla Firefox ESR: before 91.9 — fixed in 91.9
• Mozilla Thunderbird: before 91.9 — fixed in 91.9

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Mozilla Firefox 100.0; Mozilla Firefox ESR 91.9; Mozilla Thunderbird 91.9. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1684739%2C1706441%2C1753298%2C1762614%2C1762620%2C1764778
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-16/
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-17/
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-18/
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1684739%2C1706441%2C1753298%2C1762614%2C1762620%2C1764778
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-16/
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-17/
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-18/

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