CVE-2022-45416

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: Dec 22, 2022
Updated: Apr 15, 2025
Reserved: Nov 14, 2022

Description

Keyboard events reference strings like "KeyA" that were at fixed, known, and widely-spread addresses. Cache-based timing attacks such as Prime+Probe could have possibly figured out which keys were being pressed. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 102.5, Thunderbird < 102.5, and Firefox < 107.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-203 Observable Discrepancy

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Firefox ESRMozilla	before 102.5Affected
ThunderbirdMozilla	before 102.5Affected
FirefoxMozilla	before 107Affected

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-47/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-49/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-48/
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1793676

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