CVE-2022-36314

Publication date 22 December 2022

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

When opening a Windows shortcut from the local filesystem, an attacker could supply a remote path that would lead to unexpected network requests from the operating system.<br>This bug only affects Firefox for Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 102.1, Firefox < 103, and Thunderbird < 102.1.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
firefox	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored end of standard support
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
thunderbird	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Ignored end of life, was needed
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 1:102.2.2+build1-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 1:102.2.2+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Ignored end of standard support, was needed
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored end of standard support
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

mdeslaur

starting with Ubuntu 22.04, the firefox package is just a script that installs the Firefox snap

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N