{ "schema_version": "1.4.0", "id": "GHSA-4qmj-r3wp-mpm8", "modified": "2025-04-16T18:31:35Z", "published": "2022-12-22T21:30:30Z", "aliases": [ "CVE-2022-22736" ], "details": "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.", "severity": [ { "type": "CVSS_V3", "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H" } ], "affected": [], "references": [ { "type": "ADVISORY", "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-22736" }, { "type": "WEB", "url": "https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1742692" }, { "type": "WEB", "url": "https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-01" } ], "database_specific": { "cwe_ids": [ "CWE-427" ], "severity": "HIGH", "github_reviewed": false, "github_reviewed_at": null, "nvd_published_at": "2022-12-22T20:15:00Z" } }