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Vulnerability details: VCID-4y4a-yedq-xuby
Vulnerability ID VCID-4y4a-yedq-xuby
Aliases CVE-2022-29917
Summary Mozilla developers Andrew McCreight, Gabriele Svelto, Tom Ritter and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 99 and Firefox ESR 91.8. 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.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 8.8
Risk 4.4
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (2)
CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write
System Score Found at
cvssv3 9.8 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2022-29917.json
epss 0.00184 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-29917
epss 0.00184 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-29917
epss 0.00184 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-29917
epss 0.00184 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-29917
epss 0.00184 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-29917
epss 0.00184 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-29917
epss 0.00184 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-29917
epss 0.00184 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-29917
epss 0.00184 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-29917
epss 0.00184 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-29917
epss 0.00184 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-29917
epss 0.00184 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-29917
epss 0.00184 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-29917
epss 0.00184 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-29917
epss 0.00184 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-29917
epss 0.00184 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-29917
epss 0.00184 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-29917
epss 0.00189 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-29917
cvssv3.1 9.8 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1684739%2C1706441%2C1753298%2C1762614%2C1762620%2C1764778
ssvc Track https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1684739%2C1706441%2C1753298%2C1762614%2C1762620%2C1764778
cvssv3.1 7.5 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv3.1 9.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-29917
archlinux High https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-2709
archlinux High https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-2710
generic_textual high https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-16
generic_textual high https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-17
generic_textual high https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-18
cvssv3.1 9.8 https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-16/
ssvc Track https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-16/
cvssv3.1 9.8 https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-17/
ssvc Track https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-17/
cvssv3.1 9.8 https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-18/
ssvc Track https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-18/
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2022-29917.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-29917
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-1520
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-29909
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-29911
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-29912
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-29913
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-29914
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-29916
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-29917
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
2081473 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2081473
AVG-2709 https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-2709
AVG-2710 https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-2710
buglist.cgi?bug_id=1684739%2C1706441%2C1753298%2C1762614%2C1762620%2C1764778 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1684739%2C1706441%2C1753298%2C1762614%2C1762620%2C1764778
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2022-29917 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-29917
mfsa2022-16 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-16
mfsa2022-16 https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-16/
mfsa2022-17 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-17
mfsa2022-17 https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-17/
mfsa2022-18 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-18
mfsa2022-18 https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-18/
RHSA-2022:1701 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1701
RHSA-2022:1702 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1702
RHSA-2022:1703 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1703
RHSA-2022:1704 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1704
RHSA-2022:1705 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1705
RHSA-2022:1724 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1724
RHSA-2022:1725 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1725
RHSA-2022:1726 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1726
RHSA-2022:1727 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1727
RHSA-2022:1730 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1730
RHSA-2022:4589 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:4589
RHSA-2022:4590 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:4590
USN-5411-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/5411-1/
USN-5435-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/5435-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2022-29917.json
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1684739%2C1706441%2C1753298%2C1762614%2C1762620%2C1764778
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:Y/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-04-15T15:06:01Z/ Found at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1684739%2C1706441%2C1753298%2C1762614%2C1762620%2C1764778
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-29917
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-16/
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:Y/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-04-15T15:06:01Z/ Found at https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-16/
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-17/
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:Y/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-04-15T15:06:01Z/ Found at https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-17/
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-18/
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:Y/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-04-15T15:06:01Z/ Found at https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-18/
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.40577
EPSS Score 0.00184
Published At July 30, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-31T08:10:03.195678+00:00 Mozilla Importer Import https://github.com/mozilla/foundation-security-advisories/blob/master/announce/2022/mfsa2022-17.yml 37.0.0