critical
CVE-2022-22759
Mozilla: Sandboxed iframes could have executed script if the parent appended elements
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.
Severity by source
NVD9.6CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat9.6CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by AlmaLinux (high), Amazon (high), Oracle (high), Rocky Linux (high), Red Hat (medium), Ubuntu (medium).
Description
If a document created a sandboxed iframe without <code>allow-scripts</code>, 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 affects Firefox < 97, Thunderbird < 91.6, and Firefox ESR < 91.6.
Affected packages and fixed versions
| Source | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| alma 8 | firefox, thunderbird | 91.6.0-1.el8_5.alma |
| alpine 3.15 | firefox-esr | 91.6.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.16 | firefox, firefox-esr, thunderbird | 97.0-r0 and 1 more |
| alpine 3.17 | firefox, firefox-esr, thunderbird | 97.0-r0 and 1 more |
| alpine 3.18 | firefox, firefox-esr, thunderbird | 97.0-r0 and 1 more |
| alpine 3.19 | firefox, firefox-esr, thunderbird | 97.0-r0 and 1 more |
| alpine 3.20 | firefox, firefox-esr, thunderbird | 97.0-r0 and 1 more |
| alpine 3.21 | firefox, firefox-esr, librewolf and 1 more | 97.0-r0 and 1 more |
| alpine 3.22 | firefox, firefox-esr, librewolf and 1 more | 97.0-r0 and 1 more |
| alpine 3.23 | firefox, firefox-esr, librewolf and 1 more | 97.0-r0 and 1 more |
| alpine 3.24 | librewolf | 97.0-r0 |
| alpine edge | librewolf | 97.0-r0 |
Show all 72 entries from 32 sources
| Source | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| alma 8 | firefox | 91.6.0-1.el8_5.alma |
| alma 8 | thunderbird | 91.6.0-1.el8_5.alma |
| alpine 3.15 | firefox-esr | 91.6.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.16 | firefox | 97.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.16 | firefox-esr | 91.6.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.16 | thunderbird | 91.6.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.17 | firefox | 97.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.17 | firefox-esr | 91.6.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.17 | thunderbird | 91.6.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.18 | firefox | 97.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.18 | firefox-esr | 91.6.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.18 | thunderbird | 91.6.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.19 | firefox | 97.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.19 | firefox-esr | 91.6.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.19 | thunderbird | 91.6.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.20 | firefox | 97.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.20 | firefox-esr | 91.6.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.20 | thunderbird | 91.6.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.21 | firefox | 97.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.21 | firefox-esr | 91.6.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.21 | librewolf | 97.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.21 | thunderbird | 91.6.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.22 | firefox | 97.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.22 | firefox-esr | 91.6.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.22 | librewolf | 97.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.22 | thunderbird | 91.6.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.23 | firefox | 97.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.23 | firefox-esr | 91.6.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.23 | librewolf | 97.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.23 | thunderbird | 91.6.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.24 | librewolf | 97.0-r0 |
| alpine edge | librewolf | 97.0-r0 |
| amazon linux 2 | thunderbird | 91.6.0-1.amzn2.0.1 |
| amazon linux 2 | thunderbird-debuginfo | 91.6.0-1.amzn2.0.1 |
| debian 10 | firefox-esr | 91.6.0esr-1~deb10u1 |
| debian 10 | thunderbird | 1:91.6.0-1~deb10u1 |
| debian 11 | firefox-esr | 91.6.0esr-1~deb11u1 |
| debian 11 | thunderbird | 1:91.6.0-1~deb11u1 |
| debian 12 | firefox-esr | 91.6.0esr-1 |
| debian 12 | thunderbird | 1:91.6.0-1 |
| debian 13 | firefox-esr | 91.6.0esr-1 |
| debian 13 | thunderbird | 1:91.6.0-1 |
| debian 14 | firefox-esr | 91.6.0esr-1 |
| debian 14 | thunderbird | 1:91.6.0-1 |
| debian 9 | firefox-esr | 91.6.0esr-1~deb9u1 |
| debian 9 | thunderbird | 1:91.6.0-1~deb9u1 |
| echo | firefox-esr | 91.6.0esr-1 |
| echo | thunderbird | 1:91.6.0-1 |
| Oracle Linux 7 | firefox | 91.6.0-1.0.1.el7_9 |
| Oracle Linux 7 | thunderbird | 91.6.0-1.0.1.el7_9 |
| Oracle Linux 8 | firefox | 91.6.0-1.0.1.el8_5 |
| Oracle Linux 8 | thunderbird | 91.6.0-1.0.1.el8_5 |
| Red Hat | firefox | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | thunderbird | no fix listed |
| rocky 8 | firefox | 91.6.0-1.el8_5 |
| rocky 8 | thunderbird | 91.6.0-1.el8_5 |
| ubuntu 18.04 | firefox | 97.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 |
| ubuntu 18.04 | thunderbird | 1:91.7.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 |
| ubuntu 20.04 | firefox | 97.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 |
| ubuntu 20.04 | thunderbird | 1:91.7.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 |
| ubuntu 21.10 | firefox | 97.0+build2-0ubuntu0.21.10.1 |
| ubuntu 21.10 | thunderbird | 1:91.7.0+build2-0ubuntu0.21.10.1 |
| ubuntu 22.04 | firefox | 97.0+build2-0ubuntu1 |
| ubuntu 22.04 | thunderbird | 1:91.6.1+build1-0ubuntu1 |
| ubuntu 22.10 | firefox | 97.0+build2-0ubuntu1 |
| ubuntu 22.10 | thunderbird | 1:91.6.1+build1-0ubuntu1 |
| ubuntu 23.04 | firefox | 97.0+build2-0ubuntu1 |
| ubuntu 23.04 | thunderbird | 1:91.6.1+build1-0ubuntu1 |
| ubuntu 23.10 | firefox | 97.0+build2-0ubuntu1 |
| ubuntu 23.10 | thunderbird | 1:91.6.1+build1-0ubuntu1 |
| ubuntu 24.04 | firefox | 97.0+build2-0ubuntu1 |
| ubuntu 24.04 | thunderbird | 1:91.6.1+build1-0ubuntu1 |
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0535
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-22759
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1739957
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2053236
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2053237
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2053238
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2053239
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2053240
All 31 references
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2053242
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2053243
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-22754
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-22756
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-22759
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-22760
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-22761
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-22763
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-22764
- https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2022:0535
- https://linux.oracle.com/cve/CVE-2022-22759.html
- https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2022-0538.html
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-22759
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5284-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5345-1
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-22759
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-04/#CVE-2022-22759
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-05/#CVE-2022-22759
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-06/#CVE-2022-22759
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-04/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-05/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-06/