CVE-2022-22736

7.0 highEPSS 0.2%

High (7.0) in mozilla firefox. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.0 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 16% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-427
Published: 2022-12-22
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

mozilla:firefox

References

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

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