CVE-2022-46883

Mozilla Firefox and 2 others: Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')

CVE-2022-46883 is fixed in 5 products on 2 platforms, first by Mozilla Firefox (en-US) 107.0, released November 15, 2022. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.

HighFixed on 2 platforms
CVSS
8.8
Medium
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0061
49th percentile

Mozilla developers Gabriele Svelto, Yulia Startsev, Andrew McCreight and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 106. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code.<br />*Note*: This advisory was added on December 13th, 2022 after discovering it was inadvertently left out of the original advisory. The fix was included in the original release of Firefox 107. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 107.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Windows apps
Mozilla Firefox (en-US) 107.0 Mozilla Firefox (en-US) 107.0 Nov 15, 2022
Mozilla Firefox ESR (en-US) 115.4.0 Mozilla Firefox ESR (en-US) 115.4.0 Oct 17, 2023
Linux
firefox · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 107.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 firefox 107.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Dec 22, 2022
firefox-geckodriver · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 107.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 firefox-geckodriver 107.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Dec 22, 2022
firefox-mozsymbols · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 107.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 firefox-mozsymbols 107.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Dec 22, 2022

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