CVE-2022-22753

high

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.

References

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1732435

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-06/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-05/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-04/

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2022-12-22

Updated: 2022-12-29

Type: CWE-367

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.1

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

Impact Score: 5.9

Exploitability Score: 1.2

Severity: HIGH