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CVE-2022-22759

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-22759 describes a critical vulnerability in Firefox, Thunderbird, and Firefox ESR where a sandboxed iframe, even without script execution permissions, could still execute JavaScript event handlers if an element with such a handler was appended to its document. This allows for arbitrary code execution with a CVSS score of 9.6, indicating a critical severity with network-based attacks and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no public exploit code or active exploitation has been observed, and community discussion is minimal, the high risk score warrants prompt patching.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 97.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 91.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 91.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.6CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
6.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.74%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
51.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0074 is in the 58th percentile among its peer group of 836 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.8 Bluesky, 0.5 Mastodon, and 1.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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 (11)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update SupportFixed in: thunderbird-0:91.6.0-1.el8_4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: firefox-0:91.6.0-1.el7_9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: thunderbird-0:91.6.0-1.el7_9
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: firefox-0:91.6.0-1.el8_5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: thunderbird-0:91.6.0-1.el8_5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Update Services for SAP SolutionsFixed in: firefox-0:91.6.0-1.el8_1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Update Services for SAP SolutionsFixed in: thunderbird-0:91.6.0-1.el8_1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update SupportFixed in: firefox-0:91.6.0-1.el8_2
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update SupportFixed in: thunderbird-0:91.6.0-1.el8_2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update SupportFixed in: firefox-0:91.6.0-1.el8_4
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mozillavendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2022-22759Moderate

Mozilla: Sandboxed iframes could have executed script if the parent appended elements

Feb 8, 2022

References

bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
mozilla.org / security/advisories/mfsa2022-04
Vendor Advisory
mozilla.org / security/advisories/mfsa2022-05
Vendor Advisory
mozilla.org / security/advisories/mfsa2022-06
Vendor Advisory