Select your cookie preferences

We use cookies and similar tools to enhance your experience, provide our services, deliver relevant advertising, and make improvements. Approved third parties also use these tools to help us deliver advertising and provide certain site features.

CVE-2022-46874

Public on 2022-12-22
Modified on 2024-02-04
Description

A file with a long filename could have had its filename truncated to remove the valid extension, leaving a malicious extension in its place. This could potentially led to user confusion and the execution of malicious code.<br/>*Note*: This issue was originally included in the advisories for Thunderbird 102.6, but a patch (specific to Thunderbird) was omitted, resulting in it actually being fixed in Thunderbird 102.6.1. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 108, Thunderbird < 102.6.1, Thunderbird < 102.6, and Firefox ESR < 102.6.

Severity
Medium
See what this means
CVSS v3 Base Score
6.1
See breakdown
Continue reading

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 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Red Hat: CVE-2022-46874 Mitre: CVE-2022-46874 FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity