CVE-2022-22736

State: Published
Severity: 7.0 High
Published: Dec 22, 2022
Updated: Apr 16, 2025
Reserved: Jan 7, 2022

Description

If Firefox was installed to a world-writable directory, a local privilege escalation could occur when Firefox searched the current directory for system libraries. However the install directory is not world-writable by default.<br>*This bug only affects Firefox for Windows in a non-default installation. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 96.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.0 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element

Affected Products

Product	Versions
FirefoxMozilla	before 96Affected

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-01/
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1742692

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