CVE-2022-40957 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting Firefox, Firefox ESR, and Thunderbird on ARM64 platforms. It stems from inconsistent data in the instruction and data cache when generating WebAssembly (wasm) code, leading to a potentially exploitable crash. The attack vector is network-based with low complexity, requiring user interaction (UI:R), and could result in a high impact to availability (A:H). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 105.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 102.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 102.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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