CVE-2022-22753 Information

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 < 97 Thunderbird < 91.6 and Firefox ESR < 91.6.

Reference

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/