CVE-2022-29916

high

Published 2022-05-18 · Modified 2022-05-05

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.0

Description

Firefox behaved slightly differently for already known resources when loading CSS resources involving CSS variables. This could have been used to probe the browser history. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 91.9, Firefox ESR < 91.9, and Firefox < 100.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

AlmaLinux Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
8	Fixed	`firefox-91.9.0-1.el8_5.alma.aarch64.rpm`

Arch Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Fixed	`91.9-1`

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`91.9.0esr-1`
sid	Fixed	`100.0-1`
forky	Fixed	`91.9.0esr-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`91.9.0esr-1~deb11u1`
bookworm	Fixed	`91.9.0esr-1`

Red Hat Fixed 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
9	Fixed	—
8	Fixed	—

Rocky Linux Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
8	Fixed	—

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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