CVE-2022-26382: mozilla firefox Observable Discrepancy
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2022-26382 is a medium (CVSS 4.3) Observable Discrepancy vulnerability in mozilla firefox. EPSS estimates a 0.49% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 41.1% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 4 · Related 4Timeline
- 22-12-2022PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 16-04-2025Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
While the text displayed in Autofill tooltips cannot be directly read by JavaScript, the text was rendered using page fonts. Side-channel attacks on the text by using specially crafted fonts could have lead to this text being inferred by the webpage. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 98.
CVSS metrics
3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated4.3MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- NVDNIST4.3MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS trend
Probability
0.49%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
41%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 0.49% on 19-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
1 foundExploit Reference (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
Maturity: unknown
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Mozilla1 product
- firefox≥ unspecified, < 98 | < 98.0
Ubuntu1 product
- firefox< 98.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 | < 98.0+build3-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 | < 1:1snap1-0ubuntu1
2 vendors · 2 products
References
7 links- www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-10/Vendor Advisory