CVE-2022-0517: Mozilla VPN

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Mozilla VPN: before 2.7.1 (fixed in 2.7.1)

Published 2022-12-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.