CVE-2022-46872 (GCVE-0-2022-46872)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-12-22 00:00
Modified
2025-04-15 14:08
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- Arbitrary file read from a compromised content process
Summary
An attacker who compromised a content process could have partially escaped the sandbox to read arbitrary files via clipboard-related IPC messages.<br>*This bug only affects Thunderbird for Linux. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 108, Firefox ESR < 102.6, and Thunderbird < 102.6.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ► | Mozilla | Firefox |
Version: unspecified < 108 |
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