# CVE-2022-28287: In unusual circumstances, selecting text could cause text selection caching to behave incorrectly, leading to a crash.

- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 99
- Published: 2022-12-22 · Updated: 2025-04-16

## Affected

- Mozilla Firefox: fixed in 99

## Description

In unusual circumstances, selecting text could cause text selection caching to behave incorrectly, leading to a crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 99.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Mozilla Firefox, upgrade to a fixed version (99) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-13/
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1741515

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