CVE-2022-22736

high

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.

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-01/

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1742692

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-12-22

Updated: 2023-08-08

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High