CVE-2023-5731

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 118. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 119.

CVSS v3 9.8 CRITICAL

9.8^/10

CVSS v3 : CRITICAL

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1690111%2C1721904%2C1851803%2C1854068	Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-10
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-45/	Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1690111%2C1721904%2C1851803%2C1854068	Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-10
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-45/	Vendor Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

21 Nov 2024, 08:42

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2023-10-25 18:17

Updated : 2024-11-21 08:42

NVD link : CVE-2023-5731

Mitre link : CVE-2023-5731

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2023-5731

JSON object : View

Products Affected

mozilla

firefox

CWE

CWE-787

Out-of-bounds Write

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