Use After Free Affecting Firefox-ESR package, versions [,91.8.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.17% (56th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FIREFOXESR-2441865
  • published7 Apr 2022
  • disclosed5 Apr 2022
  • creditKirin

Introduced: 5 Apr 2022

CVE-2022-28282  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Firefox-ESR to version 91.8.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free via a link with rel="localization" in DocumentL10n::TranslateDocument, which is triggered by destroying an object during JavaScript execution and then referencing the object through a freed pointer, leading to a potential exploitable crash.

CVSS Scores

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