Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Dec 22, 2022· Updated Apr 16, 2025
CVE-2022-22736
CVE-2022-22736
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.*This bug only affects Firefox for Windows in a non-default installation. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 96.
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Affected products
4<96+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <96
- (no CPE)range: unspecified
- osv-coords2 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/firefox-esr&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/opensuse/MozillaFirefox&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
< 128.5.1-1.1+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: < 128.5.1-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 96.0-1.1
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