CVE-2022-22750 Privilege escalation in Firefox
A compromised content process can trick higher-privileged processes into accessing restricted resource handles, enabling privilege escalation in Firefox.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2022-22750?
CVE-2022-22750 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 22 Dec 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
By generally accepting and passing resource handles across processes, a compromised content process might have confused higher privileged processes to interact with handles that the unprivileged process should not have access to.<br>*This bug only affects Firefox for Windows and MacOS. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 96.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-22750?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Mozilla Firefox.
How do I fix CVE-2022-22750?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Is CVE-2022-22750 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-22750 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox
Sources
Also known as GHSA-cpxq-p6pr-9jf6.