Privilege Escalation Affecting Firefox package, versions [,96)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FIREFOX-3182901
  • published25 Dec 2022
  • disclosed25 Dec 2022
  • creditToshihito Kikuchi

Introduced: 25 Dec 2022

CVE-2022-22736  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Firefox to version 96 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Privilege Escalation. 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.

Note This bug only affects Firefox for Windows in a non-default installation.

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