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.

Related CVEs

CVE-2022-22736

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-4qmj-r3wp-mpm8

Published

December 22, 2022 9:30 PM

Last Modified

April 16, 2025 6:31 PM

CVSS Score

7.5 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: September 13, 2025 6:30 AM

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