Use After Free Affecting Firefox-ESR package, versions [,102.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.2% (59th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FIREFOXESR-2993568
  • published26 Aug 2022
  • disclosed23 Aug 2022
  • creditMarian Laza

Introduced: 23 Aug 2022

CVE-2022-38476  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Firefox-ESR to version 102.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free in PK11_ChangePW. This issue can lock protected data when a user changed their master password.

CVSS Scores

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