CVE-2022-0517

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Source

https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-0517

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-0517.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-0517

Published

2022-12-22T00:00:00Z

Modified

2026-07-15T01:49:02.212333406Z

Severity

7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator

Summary

[none]

Details

Mozilla VPN can load an OpenSSL configuration file from an unsecured directory. A user or attacker with limited privileges could leverage this to launch arbitrary code with SYSTEM privilege. This vulnerability affects Mozilla VPN < 2.7.1.

Database specific

{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/0xxx/CVE-2022-0517.json",
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "fixed": "2.7.1"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "cna_assigner": "mozilla"
}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/mozilla-mobile/mozilla-vpn-client

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/mozilla-vpn-client

Events

Introduced

Fixed

c8578a147a7e94107ffedb4975123f949e459973

Database specific

{
    "source": "CPE_RANGE",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "2.7.1"
        }
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:vpn:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
}

Affected versions

v2.*

v2.0.1

v2.0.3

v2.1.0

v2.7.0

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-0517.json"