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CVE-2022-22736

Date: December 22, 2022

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

Related Resources (6)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1742692
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-01/
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2022-22736
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-22736
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-01/
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2022-22736

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Uncontrolled Search Path Element

CWE-427

Insufficient Information

NVD-CWE-noinfo

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): HIGH
Privileges Required (PR): LOW
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): HIGH

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