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CVE-2022-22756

Mozilla: Drag and dropping an image could have resulted in the dropped object being an executable

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

8.8

CVSS 3.1

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Published · February 8, 2022

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:

If a user was convinced to drag and drop an image to their desktop or other folder, the resulting object could have been changed into an executable script, which would have run arbitrary code after the user clicked it.

Statement

Red Hat Product Security rates the severity of this flaw as determined by the Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 8.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-1021 · Improper Restriction of Rendered UI Layers or Frames