CVE-2022-31741

Publication date 1 June 2022

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

A crafted CMS message could have been processed incorrectly, leading to an invalid memory read, and potentially further memory corruption. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 91.10, Firefox < 101, and Firefox ESR < 91.10.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
firefox	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	21.10 impish	Fixed 101.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.21.10.1
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 101.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 101.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored end of standard support
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
mozjs38	24.04 LTS noble	Not in release
	23.10 mantic	Not in release
	23.04 lunar	Not in release
	22.10 kinetic	Not in release
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not in release
	21.10 impish	Not in release
	20.04 LTS focal	Not in release
	18.04 LTS bionic	Ignored
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
mozjs52	24.04 LTS noble	Not in release
	23.10 mantic	Not in release
	23.04 lunar	Not in release
	22.10 kinetic	Not in release
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not in release
	21.10 impish	Not in release
	20.04 LTS focal	Ignored
	18.04 LTS bionic	Ignored
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
mozjs68	24.04 LTS noble	Not in release
	23.10 mantic	Not in release
	23.04 lunar	Not in release
	22.10 kinetic	Not in release
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not in release
	21.10 impish	Not in release
	20.04 LTS focal	Ignored
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
mozjs78	24.04 LTS noble	Not in release
	23.10 mantic	Not in release
	23.04 lunar	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.10 kinetic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.04 LTS jammy	Ignored
	21.10 impish	Ignored end of life
	20.04 LTS focal	Not in release
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
mozjs91	24.04 LTS noble	Not in release
	23.10 mantic	Not in release
	23.04 lunar	Not in release
	22.10 kinetic	Not in release
	22.04 LTS jammy	Ignored
	21.10 impish	Not in release
	20.04 LTS focal	Not in release
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
thunderbird	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 1:91.10.0+build1-0ubuntu1
	23.10 mantic	Fixed 1:91.10.0+build1-0ubuntu1
	23.04 lunar	Fixed 1:91.10.0+build1-0ubuntu1
	22.10 kinetic	Fixed 1:91.10.0+build1-0ubuntu1
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
	21.10 impish	Fixed 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.21.10.1
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 1:91.11.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored end of standard support
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

tyhicks

mozjs contains a copy of the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine

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	8.8 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H