CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-22753
7.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-12-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-367
Description
A Time-of-Check Time-of-Use bug existed in the Maintenance (Updater) Service that could be abused to grant Users write access to an arbitrary directory. This could have been used to escalate to SYSTEM access.<br>*This bug only affects Firefox on Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 97, Thunderbird < 91.6, and Firefox ESR < 91.6.
Affected configurations
• mozilla firefox (< 97.0)
• mozilla firefox esr (< 91.6)
• mozilla thunderbird (< 91.6)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-367 Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition weakness
References
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1732435 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-04/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-05/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-06/ Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1732435 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-04/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-05/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-06/ Vendor Advisory