CVE-2022-26486

critical

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 < 97.0.2, Firefox ESR < 91.6.1, Firefox for Android < 97.3.0, Thunderbird < 91.6.2, and Focus < 97.3.0.

References

Exploits
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https://www.edgescan.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2023-Vulnerability-Statistics-Report.pdf

https://www.tenable.com/cyber-exposure/tenable-2022-threat-landscape-report

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-09/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-09/

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1758070

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-12-22

Updated: 2025-03-21

Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.02733