CVE-2022-22753

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

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Description

A Time-of-Check Time-of-Use bug existed in the Maintenance (Updater) Service that could be abused to grant Users write access to an arbitrary directory. This could have been used to escalate to SYSTEM access.<br>*This bug only affects Firefox on Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 97, Thunderbird < 91.6, and Firefox ESR < 91.6.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.1 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

  • CWE-367 Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

Affected Products

ProductVersions
FirefoxMozilla
  • before 97Affected
ThunderbirdMozilla
  • before 91.6Affected
Firefox ESRMozilla
  • before 91.6Affected

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