Description
An attacker who could have convinced a user to drag and drop an image to a filesystem could have manipulated the resulting filename to contain an executable extension, and by extension potentially tricked the user into executing malicious code. While very similar, this is a separate issue from CVE-2022-34482. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 102.
Published: 2022-12-22
Score: 8.8 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-37438 An attacker who could have convinced a user to drag and drop an image to a filesystem could have manipulated the resulting filename to contain an executable extension, and by extension potentially tricked the user into executing malicious code. While very similar, this is a separate issue from CVE-2022-34482. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 102.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-5504-1 Firefox vulnerabilities
History

Tue, 15 Apr 2025 18:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-434
Metrics ssvc

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Mozilla Firefox
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published:

Updated: 2025-04-15T17:49:14.355Z

Reserved: 2022-06-24T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-34483

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T09:15:15.165Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-12-22T20:15:33.930

Modified: 2025-04-15T18:15:42.730

Link: CVE-2022-34483

cve-icon Redhat

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Weaknesses