CVE-2022-22736

Name
CVE-2022-22736
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.
NVD Severity
medium
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

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

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* firefox >= None < 96.0

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status