CVE-2022-42931

LOW 3.3CVE-2022-42931 · Published 22/12/2022 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2022-42931 is a LOW (CVSS 3.3) vulnerability affecting firefox (mozilla).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.14%, higher than 3.5% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 106.0 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
firefox mozilla	`< 106.0`	`106.0`

Description

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.

References

bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi · Issue Tracking
mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-44 · Vendor Advisory

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

firefox

mozilla

< 106.0

106.0

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