🛡️ CVE-2022-36314
🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-427 NVD
5.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

When opening a Windows shortcut from the local filesystem, an attacker could supply a remote path that would lead to unexpected network requests from the operating system.
This bug only affects Firefox for Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 102.1, Firefox < 103, and Thunderbird < 102.1.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE CWE-427
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-12-22
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2025-04-15
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
firefox 103.0
firefox-esr 102.1
thunderbird 102.1

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