Name | CVE-2022-22753 |
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. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
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firefox (PTS) | sid | 131.0-1 | fixed |
firefox-esr (PTS) | bullseye | 115.14.0esr-1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 115.15.0esr-1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 115.14.0esr-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 115.15.0esr-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| trixie | 115.15.0esr-1 | fixed |
| sid | 128.3.0esr-1 | fixed |
thunderbird (PTS) | bullseye | 1:115.12.0-1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 1:115.15.0-1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1:115.12.0-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 1:115.15.0-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| trixie | 1:128.2.0esr-1 | fixed |
| sid | 1:128.2.3esr-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
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firefox | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
firefox-esr | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
thunderbird | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
Notes
- firefox <not-affected> (Only affects Windows)
- firefox-esr <not-affected> (Only affects Windows)
- thunderbird <not-affected> (Only affects Windows)
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-04/#CVE-2022-22753
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-05/#CVE-2022-22753
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-06/#CVE-2022-22753