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CVE-2022-26485

HighPublished

Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Vulnerability

Published: Dec 22, 2022
Updated: Oct 21, 2025
Assigning CNA: mozilla
Evidence observed: Mar 7, 2022

Primary CVSS

8.8/ 10High

nvd · CVSS 3.1

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS probability estimate

14.3%

Moderate · next 30 days

Percentile: 96.5%
Model date: Sep 21, 2026

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CISA Known Exploited

This CVE appears in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

Summary

Removing an XSLT parameter during processing could have lead to an exploitable use-after-free. We have had reports of attacks in the wild abusing this flaw. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 97.0.2, Firefox ESR < 91.6.1, Firefox for Android < 97.3.0, Thunderbird < 91.6.2, and Focus < 97.3.0.

Sources

CVE-2022-26485PoC
Proof-of-concept exploit for CVE-2022-26485 targeting Firefox 78.0 on Windows, demonstrating a remote code execution vulnerability in the browser's XSLT processing.

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