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CVE-2022-46872

Public on 2022-12-16
Modified on 2024-02-05
Description

The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as: An attacker who compromised a content process could have partially escaped the sandbox to read arbitrary files via clipboard-related IPC messages.

*This bug only affects Firefox for Linux. Other operating systems are unaffected.*

Severity
Important
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CVSS v3 Base Score
7.4
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 2 - Firefox Extra firefox 2023-08-21 21:01 ALAS2FIREFOX-2023-008
Amazon Linux 2 - Firefox Extra firefox 2023-08-21 21:01 ALAS2FIREFOX-2023-013
Amazon Linux 2 - Core thunderbird 2023-02-17 00:11 ALAS2-2023-1951

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 7.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 8.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

Red Hat: CVE-2022-46872 Mitre: CVE-2022-46872 FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity