Security Advisory

CVE-2022-22736

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2022-12-22 00:00:00
Last updated 2025-04-16 15:12:48
Assigner mozilla
State PUBLISHED

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.