SB2022081544 - Gentoo update for Mozilla Thunderbird



SB2022081544 - Gentoo update for Mozilla Thunderbird

Published: August 15, 2022 Updated: May 13, 2024

Security Bulletin ID SB2022081544
Severity
Critical
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 97
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Code execution

Breakdown by Severity

Critical 2% High 42% Medium 31% Low 25%
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 97 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-29967)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing HTML content. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted webpage, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


2) Command Injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-29969)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands.

The vulnerability exists in the way Thunderbird handles IMAP server responses sent prior to STARTTLS process. A remote attacker with ability to perform MitM attack can send arbitrary IMAP commands before the STARTTLS handshake and execute them after the handshake is complete.

This could have resulted in Thunderbird showing incorrect information, for example the attacker could have tricked Thunderbird to show folders that didn't exist on the IMAP server.


3) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-29970)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.

The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error in accessibility features when processing HTML content. A remote attacker can track the victim to open a specially crafted web page, trigger a use-after-free error and execute arbitrary code on the system.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise vulnerable system.


4) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-29976)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing HTML content. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted web page, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


5) Memory corruption (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-29980)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in a canvas object. A remote attacker can trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


6) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-29984)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when performing JIT optimization. A remote attacker can trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


7) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-29985)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error in media channels within the MediaCacheStream::NotifyDataReceived method. A remote attacker can trick the victim to open a specially crafted web page, trigger a use-after-free error and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


8) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-29986)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a race condition in getaddrinfowhen resolving DNS names. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted web page, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

Note, the vulnerability affects Linux systems only.


9) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-29988)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition when treating inline list-item element as a block element. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted web page, trick the victim into opening it, trigger an out-of-bounds read error and execute arbitrary code on the system.


10) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-29989)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing HTML content. A remote attacker can trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


11) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-30547)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing untrusted HTML content in ANGLE. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted web page, trick the victim into opening it, trigger out-of-bounds write and execute arbitrary code on the target system.


12) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-38492)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input when delegating navigations to the operating system. Firefox accept the mk scheme, which allows a remote attacker to launch pages and execute scripts in Internet Explorer in unprivileged mode.


13) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-38493)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing HTML content. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted web page, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


14) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-38495)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing HTML content. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted web page, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


15) Security features bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-38503)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to the iframe sandbox rules were not correctly applied to XSLT stylesheets. A remote attacker can load use an iframe to bypass restrictions such as executing scripts or navigating the top-level frame.


16) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-38504)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.

The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error when interacting with an HTML input element's file picker dialog with webkitdirectory set. A remote attacker can trick the victim to open a specially crafted website, trigger a use-after-free error and execute arbitrary code on the system.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise vulnerable system.


17) Insufficient UI Warning of Dangerous Operations (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-38506)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to Firefox could have entered fullscreen mode without notification or warning to the user. A remote attacker can perform spoofing attacks on the browser UI.


18) Security features bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-38507)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists in the Opportunistic Encryption feature of HTTP2, which allows a connection to be transparently upgraded to TLS while retaining the visual properties of an HTTP connection, including being same-origin with unencrypted connections on port 80. However, if a second encrypted port on the same IP address (e.g. port 8443) did not opt-in to opportunistic encryption; a network attacker could forward a connection from the browser from port 443 to port 8443, causing the browser to treat the content of port 8443 as same-origin with HTTP. As a result, a remote attacker can bypass Same-Origin-Policy on services hosted on other ports.


19) Improper Restriction of Rendered UI Layers or Frames (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-38508)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to Firefox displays the form validity message in the correct location at the same time as a permission prompt (such as for geolocation). The validity message could have obscured the prompt, resulting in the user potentially being tricked into granting the permission.


20) Improper Restriction of Rendered UI Layers or Frames (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-38509)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to incorrect processing of an unusual sequence of attacker-controlled events. A remote attacker can display a Javascript alert() dialog with arbitrary (although unstyled) contents over top of arbitrary webpage of the attacker's choosing.


21) Use of a broken or risky cryptographic algorithm (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-40529)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to incorrect ElGamal implementation in Botan, which allows plaintext recovery. A remote attacker can perform a cross-configuration attack against OpenPGP and recover encrypted data.


22) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-4129)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing HTML content. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted website, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


23) Security features bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-4140)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to an error in iframe sandbox implementation when processing XSLT markup. A remote attacker can bypass iframe sandbox and execute arbitrary JavaScript code in context of arbitrary window.


24) Security features bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-43528)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to Thunderbird unexpectedly enabled JavaScript in the composition area. The JavaScript execution context was limited to this area and did not receive chrome-level privileges, but could be used as a stepping stone to further an attack with other vulnerabilities.


25) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-43529)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when handling DER-encoded DSA or RSA-PSS signatures within Mozilla NSS library, as used in Mozilla Thunderbird. A remote attacker can send specially crafted emails with signatures encoded within CMS, S/MIME, PKCS #7, or PKCS #12, trigger a heap-based buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

Note, this vulnerability is described separately from #VU58477 (CVE-2021-43527), as Mozilla has decided to issue different patches for Thunderbird and NSS library.


26) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-43536)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to URL leakage when executing asynchronous functions. A remote attacker can trick the victim to open a specially crafted web page and reveal the URL of the page that is being visited afterwards.


27) Type conversion (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-43537)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.

The vulnerability exists due to a type conversion error when processing sizes from 64bit to 32bit integers when using structured clone. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted web page, trigger a heap-based buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the system.


28) Spoofing attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-43538)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a race in notification code. A remote attacker can hide the notification for pages that had received full screen and pointer lock access. Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to perform spoofing attack.


29) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-43539)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.

The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error in GC rooting when calling wasm instance methods. A remote attacker can trick the victim to open a specially crafted web page, trigger a use-after-free error and execute arbitrary code on the system.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise vulnerable system.


30) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-43541)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input when handling spaces in URLS with external protocol handlers. A remote attacker can trick the victim to click on a specially crafted link and pass unescaped input to a third-party application via URI handler.


31) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-43542)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to the way Firefox handles XMLHttpRequest requests. A remote attacker can initiate a XMLHttpRequest and identify installed applications by probing error messages for loading external protocols.


32) Security features bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-43543)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to an error when handling CSP policies. Documents loaded with the CSP sandbox directive can escape the sandbox's script restriction by embedding additional content.


33) Infinite loop (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-43545)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to infinite loop when using Location API. A remote attacker can consume all available system resources and cause denial of service conditions.


34) Spoofing attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-43546)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to incorrect processing of user-supplied data, when native cursor is zoomed. A remote attacker can perform cursor spoofing attack.


35) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-0566)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing email messages. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted email to the victim, trigger an out-of-bounds write and execute arbitrary code on the target system.


36) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-1196)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.

The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error when processing HTML content after the VR Process is destroyed. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted website, trigger a use-after-free error and execute arbitrary code on the system.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise vulnerable system.


37) Security features bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-1197)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists in OpenPGP revocation mechanisms, related to compromised keys. When importing a revoked key that specified key compromise as the revocation reason, Thunderbird did not update the existing copy of the key that was not yet revoked, and the existing key was kept as non-revoked. A remote attacker can sign messages with the revoked key and these messages will be displayed as valid and genuine.


38) Spoofing attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-1520)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to incorrect processing of user-supplied data when processing signed and encrypted attached messages. If an email contains 2 attached messages, Thunderbird displays security status of the first opened attached message for the second attached message. As a result an attacker can spoof security status of the second attached message.


39) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-1529)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input within the NotificationsDB module. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted web page, which passes malicious messages to the parent process where the contents is used to double-index into a JavaScript object. As a result, an attacker can perform prototype pollution and execute arbitrary JavaScript code in the privileged parent process.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise the affected system.


40) Code Injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-1802)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to prototype pollution in Top-Level Await implementation. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted website, corrupt the methods of an Array object in JavaScript via prototype pollution and execute arbitrary JavaScript code in a privileged context.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise the affected system.


41) Spoofing attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-1834)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to incorrect processing of multiple Braille Pattern Blank space characters, which results in displaying every space character. A remote attacker can spoof the email address of the sender.


42) Code Injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-2200)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code.

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation when handling JavaScript attributes. A remote attacker can pass undesired attributes to JavaScript object and perform prototype pollution and execute arbitrary JavaScript code in the browser.


43) Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-2226)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to improper validation of digital signatures. When displaying an email that contains a digital signature, the email's date will be shown. If the dates were different, then Thunderbird didn't report the email as having an invalid signature. If an attacker performed a replay attack, in which an old email with old contents are resent at a later time, it could lead the victim to believe that the statements in the email are current.


44) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-22737)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.

The vulnerability exists due to a race condition playing audio files. A remote attacker can construct a specially crafted audio skin, trigger a use-after-free error and execute arbitrary code on the system.

45) Heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-22738)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in blendGaussianBlur when applying CSS filter. A remote attacker can trick the victim to open a specially crafted web page, trigger a heap-based buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


46) Security features bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-22739)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to missing throttling on external protocol launch dialog. A malicious websites can trick users into accepting launching a program to handle an external URL protocol.


47) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-22740)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.

The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error in ChannelEventQueue::mOwner when releasing a network request handle. A remote attacker can trick the victim to open a specially crafted web page, trigger a use-after-free error and execute arbitrary code on the system.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise vulnerable system.


48) Improper Restriction of Rendered UI Layers or Frames (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-22741)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to an error resizing a popup while requesting fullscreen access. A remote attacker can trick the victim to open a specially crafted web page,  and make the browser unable to leave fullscreen mode.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to perform spoofing attack.

49) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-22742)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing untrusted input, when inserting text while in edit mode. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted website, trick the victim into opening it and insert specially crafted input in the edit mode, trigger out-of-bounds write and execute arbitrary code on the target system.


50) Improper Restriction of Rendered UI Layers or Frames (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-22743)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to an error when navigating from inside an iframe while requesting fullscreen access. A remote attacker can trick the victim to open a specially crafted web page,  and make the browser unable to leave fullscreen mode.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to perform spoofing attack.


51) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-22745)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to Securitypolicyviolation events leak cross-origin information for frame-ancestors violations. A remote attacker can gain access to sensitive data.


52) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-22747)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of empty pkcs7 sequence, passed as part of the certificate data. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted certificate to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


53) Spoofing attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-22748)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to incorrect processing of user-supplied data. Malicious websites could have confused Firefox into showing the wrong origin when asking to launch a program and handling an external URL protocol.


54) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-22751)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing HTML content. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted website, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


55) Security restrictions bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-22754)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists in the way Firefox handles extensions updates. A remote attacker can trick the victim to install a browser extension of a particular type and during auto-update bypass the prompt which grants the new version the new requested permissions. As a result an extension with limited permissions can be used to compromise the system.


56) Insufficient UI Warning of Dangerous Operations (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-22756)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability exists due to browser fails to properly identify a malicious file during drag and drop operations. A remote attacker can trick the victim to drag and drop an image to their desktop or other folder and change the resulting object into an executable script which will be executed after the user clicked on it.


57) Sandbox restrictions bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-22759)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to the way iframes are handled by the browser. If a document created a sandboxed iframe without allow-scripts, and subsequently appended an element to the iframe's document that e.g. had a JavaScript event handler - the event handler would have run despite the iframe's sandbox.


58) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-22760)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to the way Firefox displays error messages in cross-origin responses, when importing resources using Web Workers. A remote attacker can distinguish the difference between application/javascript responses and non-script responses and learn information cross-origin.


59) Security features bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-22761)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform unauthorized actions.

The vulnerability exists due to frame-ancestors Content Security Policy directive was not enforced for framed extension pages (pages with a moz-extension:// scheme). A remote attacker perform unauthorized actions.


60) Improper control of a resource through its lifetime (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-22763)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to an error when handling script execution during invalid object state. A remote attacker can cause a script to run late in the lifecycle, at a point after where it should not be possible.


61) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-22764)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing HTML content. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted website, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


62) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-24713)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (ReDoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due regex for Rust does not properly control consumption of internal resources when parsing untrusted input. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) attack.


63) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-26381)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.

The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error when processing HTML content A remote attacker can trigger a use-after-free by forcing a text reflow in an SVG object and execute arbitrary code on the system.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise vulnerable system.


64) Insufficient UI Warning of Dangerous Operations (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-26383)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to an error when resizing a popup after requesting fullscreen access. The popup would not display the fullscreen notification, which allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.


65) Security restrictions bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-26384)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to a logic error when processing iframes. If an attacker can control the contents of an iframe sandboxed with allow-popups but not allow-scripts, it is possible to craft a link that, when clicked, would lead to JavaScript execution in violation of the sandbox.


66) Improper access control (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-26386)

The vulnerability allows a local user to gain access to victim's downloads.

The vulnerability exists due to browser stores files in the /tmp folder, which is accessible by all local users. A local user can read files from this folder and gain access to potentially sensitive information.

Note, the vulnerability affects Firefox ESR on macOS and Linux.


67) Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-26387)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a race condition when verifying signatures during Firefox add-on installation. A remote attacker can replace the underlying add-on file while the user was confirming the prompt and install a malicious add-on on the system.


68) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-26485)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.

The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error when processing XSLT parameter. A remote attacker can trick the victim to open a specially crafted web page, trigger a use-after-free error and execute arbitrary code on the system.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise vulnerable system.

Note, the vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild.


69) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-26486)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.

The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error when processing messages in the WebGPU IPC framework. A remote attacker can trick the victim to open a specially crafted web page, trigger a use-after-free error and execute arbitrary code on the system.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise vulnerable system.

Note, the vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild.


70) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-28281)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when handling an unexpected number of WebAuthN Extensions in a Register command to the parent process. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted web page, trick the victim into opening it using the affected software, trigger out-of-bounds write and execute arbitrary code on the target system.


71) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-28282)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.

The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error when processing links with rel="localization". A remote attacker can trick the victim to open a specially crafted web page, trigger a use-after-free error and execute arbitrary code on the system.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise vulnerable system.


72) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-28285)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to usage of incorrect AliasSet when generating the assembly code for MLoadTypedArrayElementHole. A remote attacker can abuse this along with another vulnerability to perform an out-of-bounds read.


73) Spoofing attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-28286)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to incorrect processing of user-supplied data. Due to a layout change, iframe contents can be rendered outside of its border.  A remote attacker can spoof page content.


74) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-28289)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing HTML content. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted web page, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


75) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-29909)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due improper management of permissions within the application. Documents in deeply-nested cross-origin browsing contexts can obtain permissions granted to the top-level origin. A remote attacker can create a web page that bypasses the existing browser prompt and wrongfully inherits the top-level permissions.


76) Security features bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-29911)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to improper protection for the top-level navigation for an iframe sandbox with a policy relaxed through a keyword like allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation. A remote attacker can abuse this to bypass implemented sandboxing restrictions of loaded iframes.


77) Security features bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-29912)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to requests initiated through reader mode did not properly omit cookies with a SameSite attribute. A remote attacker can intercept cookies with SameSite attribute set.


78) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-29913)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to improper management of internal resources when handling Speech Synthesis feature. The parent process does not properly check whether the Speech Synthesis feature is enabled, when receiving instructions from a child process.


79) Insufficient UI warning of dangerous operations (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-29914)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to an error when reusing existing popups. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crated website and abuse the popups to cover the fullscreen notification UI, which can allow browser spoofing attack.


80) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-29916)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to browsers behaves differently when loading CSS from known resources involving CSS variables. A remote attacker can monitor browser behavior to guess which websites were previously visited and are stored in browser history.


81) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-29917)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing HTML content. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted web page, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


82) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-31736)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to an error when processing HTTP requests. A malicious website can obtain the size of a cross-origin resource that supported Range requests.

83) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-31737)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in WebGL when processing HTML content. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted website, trick the victim into opening it using the affected software, trigger out-of-bounds write and execute arbitrary code on the target system.


84) Spoofing attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-31738)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to an error when exiting fullscreen mode. A remote attacker can use an iframe to confused the browser about the current state of fullscreen and perform spoofing attack.


85) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-31740)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error related to register allocation problem in WASM on arm64. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted webpage, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


86) Use of Uninitialized Variable (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-31741)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing HTML content. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted webpage, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


87) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-31742)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to an error when handling a large number of allowCredential entries. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted website, launch a timing attack and detect the difference between invalid key handles and cross-origin key handles. Successful exploitation of the vulnerability can lead to cross-origin account linking in violation of WebAuthn goals.


88) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-31747)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing HTML content. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted website, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


89) Security features bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-34468)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to improper handling of the CSP sandbox header without "allow-scripts" option. A remote attacker use an iframe to bypass implemented CSP restriction and execute scripts if the user clicks on a javascript: link.


90) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-34470)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.

The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error in nsSHistory when handling XML documents. A remote attacker can trigger a use-after-free error and execute arbitrary code on the system.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise vulnerable system.


91) Error Handling (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-34472)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to influence browser behavior.

The vulnerability exists due to improper error handling when processing unavailable PAC file. If a PAC URL is set and the server that hosts the PAC is unreachable, OCSP requests are blocked, resulting in incorrect error pages being shown.


92) Improper Authorization in Handler for Custom URL Scheme (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-34478)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.

The vulnerability exists due to insecure usage of URI handlers that allow usage of ms-msdt, search, and search-ms protocols. A remote attacker can trick the victim to click on a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary code on the system, if the victim accepts the browser prompt.

The vulnerability affects Firefox on Windows.


93) Improper Restriction of Rendered UI Layers or Frames (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-34479)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to improper handling of resizing event for a popup window. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted website that can create a resized popup to overlay the address bar with its own content and perform spoofing attack.

Note, the vulnerability affects Linux installations only.


94) Integer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-34481)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to integer overflow in the nsTArray_Impl::ReplaceElementsAt() function. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted website, trigger an integer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


95) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-34484)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing HTML content. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted website, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


96) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-36318)

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data when visiting directory listings for chrome:// URLs as source text. A remote attacker can execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.


97) Spoofing attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-36319)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to an error, related to mouse pointer positioning when combining CSS properties for overflow and transform. A remote attacker can trick the victim into interacting with mouse cursor with different coordinates than displayed.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.