Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package firefox (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published1 Sept 2025
- disclosed13 Dec 2022
Introduced: 13 Dec 2022
CVE-2022-46872 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream firefox package and not the firefox package as distributed by RHEL.
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.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-46872
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:9065
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1799156
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-06
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-13
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-51/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-52/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-53/