CVE-2022-45416

Mozilla: Keystroke Side-Channel Leakage

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

6.1

CVSS 3.0

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Published · November 15, 2022

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as: 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.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 6.1
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CWE not specified