CVE-2022-22750 (GCVE-0-2022-22750)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-12-22 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-16 15:50
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-16 14:52 UTC
CWE
- IPC passing of resource handles could have lead to sandbox bypass
- CWE-noinfo Not enough information
Assigner
References
Impacted products
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