CVE-2022-22736

HIGH

Mozilla Firefox < 96.0 - Uncontrolled Search Path

Title source: rule

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.

References (2)

Scores

CVSS v3 7.0
EPSS 0.0011
EPSS Percentile 29.2%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-427
Status published

Affected Products (1)

mozilla/firefox < 96.0

Timeline

Published Dec 22, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026