Vulnerabilities > CVE-2022-45416 - Information Exposure Through Discrepancy vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox

047910
CVSS 6.5 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
NONE
network
low complexity
mozilla
CWE-203

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Mozilla
1526

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)