CVE-2022-34475

Publication date 5 July 2022

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

SVG <code><use></code> tags that referenced a same-origin document could have resulted in script execution if attacker input was sanitized via the HTML Sanitizer API. This would have required the attacker to reference a same-origin JavaScript file containing the script to be executed. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 102.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
firefox	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	21.10 impish	Fixed 102.0+build2-0ubuntu0.21.10.1
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 102.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 102.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	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

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-5504-1
Firefox vulnerabilities
5 July 2022