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  "cveId": "CVE-2022-38478",
  "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-38478",
  "summary": "CVE-2022-38478 is fixed in 13 products on 2 platforms, first by firefox 104.0\u002Bbuild3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, released August 23, 2022. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.",
  "title": "Mozilla Thunderbird and 4 others: Out-of-bounds Write",
  "description": "Members the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 103, Firefox ESR 102.1, and Firefox ESR 91.12. 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. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird \u003C 102.2, Thunderbird \u003C 91.13, Firefox ESR \u003C 91.13, Firefox ESR \u003C 102.2, and Firefox \u003C 104.",
  "published": "2022-08-23T17:00:00Z",
  "severity": "Important",
  "cvss": 8.8,
  "cvssVector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
  "cwe": "CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write",
  "epss": 0.0094,
  "epssPercentile": 0.6116,
  "priority": "High",
  "priorityTier": 3,
  "exploited": false,
  "vendorExploited": false,
  "disclosed": false,
  "vendorAdvisory": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-38478",
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