CVE-2022-22740: Mozilla Firefox

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Certain network request objects were freed too early when releasing a network request handle. This could have lead to a use-after-free causing a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 91.5, Firefox < 96, and Thunderbird < 91.5.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: before 96.0 (fixed in 96.0)
• Mozilla Firefox ESR: before 91.5 (fixed in 91.5)
• Mozilla Thunderbird: before 91.5 (fixed in 91.5)

Published 2022-12-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.