CVE-2022-22736 (GCVE-0-2022-22736)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-12-22 00:00
Modified
2025-04-16 15:12
CWE
  • Potential local privilege escalation when loading modules from the install directory.
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.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Mozilla Firefox Version: unspecified   < 96
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