CVE-2022-22736 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00041.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Mozilla	Firefox

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-27879	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.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1742692
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-01/

History

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 16:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2022-12-22T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-04-16T15:12:48.112Z

Reserved: 2022-01-07T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-22736

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T03:21:49.089Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-12-22T20:15:14.153

Modified: 2025-04-16T16:15:21.410

Link: CVE-2022-22736

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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