Mozilla Thunderbird up to 91.5 Javascript sandbox

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Thunderbird up to 91.5. It has been declared as critical. This affects an unknown function of the component Javascript. Executing a manipulation can lead to sandbox. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2022-22759. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Mozilla Thunderbird up to 91.5 (Mail Client Software) and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects some unknown processing of the component Javascript. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a sandbox vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-265. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was released 02/08/2022 by Johan Carlsson as Bug 1739957 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is available at bugzilla.mozilla.org. The advisory contains:

If a document created a sandboxed iframe without allow-scripts, and subsequently appended an element to the iframe's document that e.g. had a JavaScript event handler - the event handler would have run despite the iframe's sandbox.
This vulnerability was named CVE-2022-22759. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 04/29/2026). This vulnerability is assigned to T1611 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 91.6 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2022-27902). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.0

VulDB Base Score: 6.3
VulDB Temp Score: 6.0
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Sandbox
CWE: CWE-265 / CWE-264
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Thunderbird 91.6

Timelineinfo

01/07/2022 🔍
02/08/2022 +32 days 🔍
02/08/2022 +0 days 🔍
09/29/2022 +233 days 🔍
04/29/2026 +1308 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org

Advisory: Bug 1739957
Researcher: Johan Carlsson
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2022-22759 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2022-22759
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-209866
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Entryinfo

Created: 09/29/2022 17:04
Updated: 04/29/2026 02:14
Changes: 09/29/2022 17:04 (8), 09/29/2022 17:05 (9), 09/29/2022 17:08 (29), 10/26/2022 08:05 (1), 04/29/2026 02:14 (15)
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