CVE-2022-46875

Mozilla: Download Protections were bypassed by .atloc and .ftploc files on Mac OS

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

6.1

CVSS 3.1

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Published · December 13, 2022

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as: The executable file warning was not presented when downloading .atloc and .ftploc files, which can run commands on a user's computer.

Note: This issue only affected Mac OS operating systems. Other operating systems are unaffected.

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 · 6.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CWE-357 · Insufficient UI Warning of Dangerous Operations