CVE-2022-42931

Logins saved by Firefox should be managed by the Password Manager component which uses encryption to save files on-disk. Instead, the username (not password) was saved by the Form Manager to an unencrypted file on disk. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 106.

Score

CVSS 3.1 3.3 Low

Status

Modified - security@mozilla.org

Published

2022-12-22

Last modified

2025-04-15

Weaknesses

CWE-312

Affected products

• Firefox (Mozilla)

References

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1780571
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-44/