cve-2022-22736
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-12-22 00:00
Modified
2024-08-03 03:21
Severity ?
Summary
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
security@mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1742692Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-01/Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
MozillaFirefox
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