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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2022-31739 json

When downloading files on Windows, the % character was not escaped, which could have lead to a download incorrectly being saved to attacker…

published 2022-12-22 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-53137

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.7%
EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 53%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

When downloading files on Windows, the % character was not escaped, which could have lead to a download incorrectly being saved to attacker-influenced paths that used variables such as %HOMEPATH% or %APPDATA%.<br>*This bug only affects Firefox for Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 91.10, Firefox < 101, and Firefox ESR < 91.10.

Patch / fix

  • Mozilla Thunderbird 91.10
  • Mozilla Firefox 101
  • Mozilla Firefox ESR 91.10
  • MozillaThunderbird SLE Workstation Extension 15 SP4, SLE Workstation Extension 15 SP3, SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP4 +3 more 91.10.0-150200.8.73.1
  • MozillaFirefox SLES for SAP 15 SP1, SLES for SAP 15, SLES 15-LTSS +7 more 91.10.0-150000.150.44.1
  • MozillaFirefox SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES for SAP 12 SP4, SLES for SAP 12 SP3 +11 more 91.10.0-112.114.1
  • MozillaFirefox SLES for SAP 15 SP2, SLES 15 SP2-LTSS, SLES 15 SP2-BCL +10 more 91.10.0-150200.152.43.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2022:2062-1SUSE-SU-2022:1927-1SUSE-SU-2022:1921-1SUSE-SU-2022:1920-1

  • firefox-esr openSUSE Tumbleweed 128.5.1-1.1
  • MozillaThunderbird openSUSE Tumbleweed 91.10.0-1.1
  • MozillaFirefox openSUSE Tumbleweed 101.0-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1openSUSE-SU-2024:12117-1openSUSE-SU-2024:12121-1

  • firefox Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22, Alpine 3.21 +5 more 101.0-r0
  • librewolf Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +1 more 101.0-r0
  • firefox-esr Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22, Alpine 3.21 +6 more 91.10.0-r0
  • thunderbird Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22, Alpine 3.21 +5 more 91.10.0-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2022-31739

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-31739 updated cvss 7.5

Mozilla: Attacker-influenced path traversal when saving downloaded files

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 firefox, thunderbird Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 firefox, thunderbird Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 firefox, thunderbird Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 firefox, firefox-x11, thunderbird
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
18 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.70% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 53% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • Mozilla Thunderbird
  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Mozilla Firefox ESR

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-73 External Control of File Name or Path

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.