CVE-2022-22742: Mozilla Firefox

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

When inserting text while in edit mode, some characters might have lead to out-of-bounds memory access 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.