CVE-2022-26486

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-416 Use After Free

Publication date:

22/12/2022

Last modified:

04/11/2025

Description

An unexpected message in the WebGPU IPC framework could lead to a use-after-free and exploitable sandbox escape. We have had reports of attacks in the wild abusing this flaw. This vulnerability affects Firefox

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.60 CRITICAL
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Changed
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

9.60

Severity 3.x

CRITICAL

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:::::esr:::*		91.6.1 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:::::-:::*		97.0.2 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox::::::android::*		97.3.0 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_focus::::::::		97.3.0 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird::::::::		91.6.2 (excluding)

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2022-26486

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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