Bug 2053241 (CVE-2022-22753)

Summary:	CVE-2022-22753 Mozilla: Privilege Escalation to SYSTEM on Windows via Maintenance Service
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Tomas Hoger <thoger>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified	CC:	erack, jhorak, nobody, stransky, tpopela
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	firefox 91.6, thunderbird 91.6	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as: 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.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Blocks:	2051914

Description Tomas Hoger 2022-02-10 18:44:39 UTC

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.*

External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-05/#CVE-2022-22753

Comment 1 Product Security DevOps Team 2022-02-10 19:36:17 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2022-22753