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CVE-2022-26485

72
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-26485 is a critical use-after-free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, Firefox ESR, Firefox for Android, Thunderbird, and Focus, stemming from the improper removal of an XSLT parameter during processing. This flaw carries a high CVSS score of 8.8, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity, requiring user interaction, and potentially leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild, as confirmed by its presence in CISA's KEV catalog, and has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, despite a lack of public exploit code.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 91.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:esr:*:*:*
< 97.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
< 97.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:android:*:*
< 97.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_focus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 91.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
13.80%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
96.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
Added to KEV · Mar 7, 2022
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1380 is in the 96th percentile among its peer group of 14,848 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (13)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update SupportFixed in: thunderbird-0:91.7.0-2.el8_4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: firefox-0:91.7.0-3.el7_9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: thunderbird-0:91.7.0-2.el7_9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: firefox-0:91.7.0-3.el8_5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: thunderbird-0:91.7.0-2.el8_5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Update Services for SAP SolutionsFixed in: firefox-0:91.7.0-3.el8_1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Update Services for SAP SolutionsFixed in: thunderbird-0:91.7.0-2.el8_1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update SupportFixed in: firefox-0:91.7.0-3.el8_2
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update SupportFixed in: thunderbird-0:91.7.0-2.el8_2
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update SupportFixed in: firefox-0:91.7.0-3.el8_4
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mozillavendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
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redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: firefox:flatpak/firefox
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: thunderbird:flatpak/thunderbird

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2022-26485Critical

Mozilla: Use-after-free in XSLT parameter processing

Mar 5, 2022

References

cisa.gov / known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
US Government Resource
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
ExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
mozilla.org / security/advisories/mfsa2022-09
Vendor Advisory