CVE-2022-22758 — Cleartext 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
Affected products
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
🔴Vulnerability Details
1GHSA▶
GHSA-x7x8-qh7j-2q6h: When clicking on a tel: link, USSD codes, specified after a \* character, would be included in the phone number↗2022-12-22