What is CVE-2022-34485?

CVE-2022-34485 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2022-12-22.

How severe is CVE-2022-34485?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Mozilla Firefox

CVE-2022-34485

Mozilla developers Bryce Seager van Dyk and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported potential vulnerabilities present in Firefox 101. 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 Firefox < 102.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.007 (49.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox — versions unspecified, 101.0.1, 101.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write

References

security@mozilla.org (Vendor Advisory)
security@mozilla.org (Broken Link)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-34485?: CVE-2022-34485 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2022-12-22.
How severe is CVE-2022-34485?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.