CVE-2022-28282 is a use-after-free vulnerability affecting Mozilla Firefox, Firefox ESR, and Thunderbird versions prior to 99, 91.8, and 91.8 respectively. An attacker could trigger this by providing a malicious link with rel="localization", leading to a potential exploitable crash during JavaScript execution. Rated as Medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) and has low attack complexity (AC:L), with a high impact on availability (A:H). There is no impact on confidentiality or integrity. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE. It is not listed on the CISA KEV catalog.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 99.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 91.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 91.8CPE 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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