CVE-2022-22758Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Info in Mozilla Firefox

Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 64.22%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedDec 22

Description

When clicking on a tel: link, USSD codes, specified after a \* character, would be included in the phone number. On certain phones, or on certain carriers, if the number was dialed this could perform actions on a user's account, similar to a cross-site request forgery attack.*This bug only affects Firefox for Android. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 97.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages4 packages

CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified97
NVDmozilla/firefox< 97.0
mozillamozilla/firefox

🔴Vulnerability Details

1
GHSA
GHSA-x7x8-qh7j-2q6h: When clicking on a tel: link, USSD codes, specified after a \* character, would be included in the phone number2022-12-22

📋Vendor Advisories

2
Debian
CVE-2022-22758: firefox - When clicking on a tel: link, USSD codes, specified after a <code>\*</code> char...2022
Mozilla
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2022-04: CVE-2022-22758