If a user installed an extension of a particular type, the extension could have auto-updated itself and while doing so, bypass the prompt which grants the new version the new requested permissions. 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: 2024-08-03T03:21:49.109Z

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

Link: CVE-2022-22754

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2022-12-22T20:15:17.897

Modified: 2022-12-29T23:06:41.903

Link: CVE-2022-22754

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

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

Links: CVE-2022-22754 - Bugzilla