A Time-of-Check Time-of-Use bug existed in the Maintenance (Updater) Service that could be abused to grant Users write access to an arbitrary directory. This could have been used to escalate to SYSTEM access.<br>*This bug only affects Firefox on Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 97, Thunderbird < 91.6, and Firefox ESR < 91.6.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

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

Updated: 2024-08-03T03:21:49.106Z

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

Link: CVE-2022-22753

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2022-12-22T20:15:17.607

Modified: 2022-12-29T23:03:01.720

Link: CVE-2022-22753

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2022-02-08T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-22753 - Bugzilla