CVE-2022-36316

Publication date 27 July 2022

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.1 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

When using the Performance API, an attacker was able to notice subtle differences between PerformanceEntries and thus learn whether the target URL had been subject to a redirect. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 103.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
thunderbird 23.04 lunar
Not affected
22.10 kinetic Ignored end of life, was needed
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 1:102.2.2+build1-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 1:102.2.2+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
18.04 LTS bionic Ignored end of standard support, was needed
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored end of standard support
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
firefox 23.04 lunar
Not affected
22.10 kinetic
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 103.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 103.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored end of standard support
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Notes

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

References

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