CVE-2022-42931

Publication date 27 October 2022

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

3.3 · Low

Score breakdown

Logins saved by Firefox should be managed by the Password Manager component which uses encryption to save files on-disk. Instead, the username (not password) was saved by the Form Manager to an unencrypted file on disk. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 106.

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Status

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
Fixed 106.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 106.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored end of standard support
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of standard support
thunderbird 23.04 lunar
Not affected
22.10 kinetic
Fixed 1:102.4.2+build2-0ubuntu0.22.10.1
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 1:102.4.2+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 1:102.4.2+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 1:102.4.2+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored end of standard support
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of standard support

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 3.3 · Low
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Low
Integrity impact None
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N