CVE-2022-0843

HighCVSS 8.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Mozilla developers Kershaw Chang, Ryan VanderMeulen, and Randell Jesup reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 97. 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 Firefox < 98.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 8.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-787

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
Mozilla	Firefox	>= unspecified, < 98

References

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1746523%2C1749062%2C1749164%2C1749214%2C1749610%2C1750032%2C1752100%2C1752405%2C1753612%2C1754508Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-10/Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1746523%2C1749062%2C1749164%2C1749214%2C1749610%2C1750032%2C1752100%2C1752405%2C1753612%2C1754508Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-10/Vendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: Dec 22, 2022
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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