CVE-2022-0517

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Dec 22, 2022
Updated: Apr 16, 2025
Reserved: Feb 7, 2022

Description

Mozilla VPN can load an OpenSSL configuration file from an unsecured directory. A user or attacker with limited privileges could leverage this to launch arbitrary code with SYSTEM privilege. This vulnerability affects Mozilla VPN < 2.7.1.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-434 Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Mozilla VPNMozilla	before 2.7.1Affected

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-08/
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1752291

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