CVE-2022-22753

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

22/12/2022

Last modified:

16/04/2025

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.*This bug only affects Firefox on Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.10 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

7.10

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox::::::::		97.0 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr::::::::		91.6 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird::::::::		91.6 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:-:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2022-22753

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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