CVE-2022-45416 (GCVE-0-2022-45416)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-12-22 00:00
Modified
2025-04-15 14:51
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • Keystroke Side-Channel Leakage
Summary
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.
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Mozilla Firefox ESR Version: unspecified   < 102.5
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   Mozilla Firefox Version: unspecified   < 107
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