Vulnerability CVE-2022-22736


Published: 2022-12-22

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

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