CVE-2022-22736 Information

Description

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.
This bug only affects Firefox for Windows in a non-default installation. Other operating systems are unaffected.. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 96.

Reference

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