CVE-2022-42931

Publication date 27 October 2022

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

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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
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored
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
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored

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

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-5709-1
Firefox vulnerabilities
1 November 2022